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Subject: Re: Star Wars Defense Plan
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Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 12:53:51 EDT
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Some of those in favor of the Star Wars defense system say that we're
being "defeatist" by saying that it will never work and/or cost
an unacceptable amount of money.

Who's being more defeatist here? The engineers for raising perfectly
valid concerns based on technical issues or the politicians for saying
that a far cheaper (and the only practical) solution, namely arms
control agreements, isn't feasable?

Reagan wants to build Star Wars because he's been an utter failure at
arms control. No other reason.

Phil