Daniel Schorr is one of my heros. He said, we don't know (for certain) that it won't work. I respectfully submit, before we spend that kind of money and make all those foreign enemies, we should be very, very certain that it does work. And no matter who you believe, we aren't certain of that. The possible advantage of SDI is extremely speculative.

The down side, especially taken together with all those tax cuts, is that the scheme could bankrupt the United States government. But if you hate the government, maybe that isn't a down side. And that angle namely, the link to a real right-wing-crazy, hate-the-government standpoint, scares hell out of me.

And another thing that scares hell out of me, is the point George Soros raised the other day on NPR, which is that to justify this project Bush may have to bring back the cold war - make us some more enemies, create some threats. For the moment, I'll give Bush the benefit of the doubt on that, but . . .