St. Ronnie's Boondoggle Lives!

[Fenian_Bastard]

So, our missile-defense system works like a charm as long as the enemy doesn't attack if it's cloudy.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23253805

How many billions are we up to now?

 

[hockeybeat]

So, our missile-defense system works like a charm as long as the enemy doesn't attack if it's cloudy.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23253805

How many billions are we up to now?

You have to laugh to keep the pain away.

 

[Batman]

Or, the fact that this thing costs $60 million per missile and is somehow being viewed by several countries as a hostile act, means they want to make sure they hit the damn thing and get this right the first time.
Somehow, if an actual ICBM with a nuclear warhead strapped to it were heading our way, I doubt they'd wait.

 

[jboy]

China was criticized last year when it used a missile to destroy a defunct weather satellite.

Wait, China's already done this? Then why the **** are we trying to do it for 60 mil? Outsource, people! Have we learned nothing? China will shoot down our satellite for 10 million, 15 tops.

 

[zeke12]

Or, the fact that this thing costs $60 million per missile and is somehow being viewed by several countries as a hostile act, means they want to make sure they hit the damn thing and get this right the first time.
Somehow, if an actual ICBM with a nuclear warhead strapped to it were heading our way, I doubt they'd wait.

I also doubt they'd hit anything.

 

[Ace]

China was criticized last year when it used a missile to destroy a defunct weather satellite.

Wait, China's already done this? Then why the **** are we trying to do it for 60 mil? Outsource, people! Have we learned nothing? China will shoot down our satellite for 10 million, 15 tops.

We tried to give to to Blackwater, but they started blasting everything in the sky that moved.

Where do you think the craters on the moon came from?

 

[hondo]

Almost didn't matter if Star Wars worked, or if Regan though it would work -- or didn't think it would work.
The important thing is that Gorbochov thought it would work.

 

[Dangerous_K]

Almost didn't matter if Star Wars worked, or if Regan though it would work -- or didn't think it would work.
The important thing is that Gorbochov thought it would work.

I've heard this before, but couldn't much more of the Soviet Union's demise be attributed to the resources pumped into Vietnam and Afghanistan?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Almost didn't matter if Star Wars worked, or if Regan though it would work -- or didn't think it would work.
The important thing is that Gorbochov thought it would work.

Actually, if you read Frances FitzGerald's defintive work on the subject, Gorbachev's scientists told him it wouldn't work. Gorbachev didn't think it would work, either. Glasnost and perestroika, St. Ronnie's acolytes notwithstanding, were responses to the crumbling Soviet society and the dry rot that collapsed the Soviet economy.
And, even if what hondo wrote were true, the Soviet Union collapsed almost 20 years ago. Can't we stop pouring money down the rathole now?

 

[JR]

The problem is, FB, your analysis runs contrary to the sacred notion that Reagan singlehandedly destroye Communism.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Watch it or we won;t protect your frozen ass with our magic space shield.

 

[hockeybeat]

When do we get the light sabres?

 

[JR]

Watch it or we won;t protect your frozen ass with our magic space shield.

All is well. The Mounties are in charge.

 

[Beaker]

If all else fails, remember you can always duct tape your doors and windows! <homeland security>

 

[Starman]

We'll be paying for that senile old idiot's bull**** for the next 50 years. Next 100, in some ways. ****ing doddering moron.

 

[jgmacg]

Can't we stop pouring money down the rathole now?

Not until I get the Brilliant Pebbles I was promised. And my flying car.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Can't we stop pouring money down the rathole now?

Not until I get the Brilliant Pebbles I was promised. And my flying car.

Man, that's some fine reference right there, jmac.

 

[jgmacg]

It was the best bad idea in DoD history: a bucket of ball bearings and a $4,000,000,000 slingshot.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

So, our missile-defense system works like a charm as long as the enemy doesn't attack if it's cloudy.

I would surmise the enemy is under the same constraints.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

So, our missile-defense system works like a charm as long as the enemy doesn't attack if it's cloudy.

I would surmise the enemy is under the same constraints.

What?