| sethnintendo said: SDI program pretty much was a failure. The new anti missle system works sometimes. I think the early version during the 90s had a very bad failure rate but they have improved it. |
Then they figured out how easy it was to shoot down much slower moving planes from space based lasers. But that's a secret.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
