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Originally posted by Lebell
Just to answer you both:
Why would he?
Because the man is insane.
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As a megalomaniac, the last thing any megalomaniac wants to do is lose what gives them power. He isn't stupid, there is a reason that he's still in charge.
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As to proliferation, our not having one hasn't stopped other nations from trying to get nukes, so that argument doesn't work.
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Actually, it is nations like China that are producing more nukes because of this. Where we were once headed towards a world with less nukes we are headed towards a world with more.
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Would it work?
Hell, even a 50/50 shot is worth the try, as opposed to a 100% chance of losing Seattle, San Fran or LA.
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Take a hundreth of money invested in this program that will likely not work and put it into diplomacy. I'd feel much safer if we tried working with nations that worry us, instead of calling them part of the "Axis of Evil" or something absurd like that. Also, from the reports that I've read, I find it unlikely that there is even a 10% chance that this multi-billion dollar program will successfully stop an incoming missile.