Doug, I'm sure you correctly cited Shorr. I'm also sure that building the anti missile shield would be cheaper that fighting another world war. Surely you are correct in saying that.

On the other hand, I don't see any great likelihood of our getting into another world war, things being as they are, unless, in order to justify the SDI program (which serves a number of domestic purposes having nothing whatsoever to do with defense) our leaders feel compelled to alienate a lot of foreign powers and for that reason get us into a world war. That was George Soros's point. I'm not sure I think George Bush is capable of that.

There is not the slightest doubt in my mind but what if the Right Wing of his party had their way, they would quickly make the United States such an unbearable neighbor that everyone would be forced to wage war against us, to preserve civilization.