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In a message dated 7/25/03 5:24:31 PM CDT, jayphailey{at}tic1.net writes:
> Another reason to damn Robert McNamara to hell (He
> killed the X plane program because he feared that
> accelerating American technology would destabilize the
> Balance of power)
>
> Without that, spaceplanes might be common place today
>
> Jay ~Meow!~
McNamara has always struck me as one of the most disgusting human beings of
the last fifty years. What you pointed out just confirms that opinion all
the more.
Frankly, I've never quite understood this obsession with "Balance of
Power" anyway. It always seemed like an excuse to allow all sorts of
evil to go on.
And it's an added kick in the crotch for McNamara that it was the fear of
advancing US technology that allowed individuals like Gorbachev to come to
power in the old USSR and push for reforms.
If we'd had space planes and a "real" space transport system back
then maybe all that cold war insanity might have ended a little bit sooner.
-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
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In a message dated 7/25/03 5:24:31 PM CDT,
jayphailey{at}tic1.net writes:
> Another reason to damn Robert McNamara to hell (He
> killed the X plane program because he feared that
> accelerating American technology would destabilize the
> Balance of power)
>
> Without that, spaceplanes might be common place today
>
> Jay ~Meow!~
McNamara has always struck me as one of the most disgusting human
beings of the last fifty years. What you pointed out
just confirms that opinion all the more.
Frankly, I've never quite understood this obsession with
"Balance of Power" anyway. It always seemed like an
excuse to allow all sorts of evil to go on.
And it's an added kick in the crotch for McNamara that it was the
fear of advancing US technology that allowed individuals like
Gorbachev to come to power in the old USSR and push for
reforms.
If we'd had space planes and a "real" space transport
system back then maybe all that cold war insanity might have
ended a little bit sooner.
-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
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m/darkhrzn91701/main.htm
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