Good post, Whistle Stop. I agree with most everything you wrote.

Fionn: I have no idea. To me, the subject of Terriorism, such as would be caused by containers arriving to the U.S. or car bombs, things like that, is an entirely different subject from SDI. Those are real threats too, and I would guess even more difficult to guard against than the threat of missiles.

As I said in a post sometime ago (I think). When I was a small boy, people came out of their houses to gaze up when an airplane flew over our little town. Who would have thought, in those days, while gazing up at the full moon that the U. S. would ever send a man to the moon? That the aeroplane we were all so curious to see flying through the airspace of my small Texas town would someday fly at speeds faster than sound!

That's why arguments from those of you who are evidently far more familiar with the technology required than I, that SDI will never work, is not wholeheartedly embraced by me. I have lived through too many miracles.

Kendall, I'm sure you're right. A Liberal lady for me! When we weren't lovin' we could be fightin'

DougR