IMMA FIRIN' MAH LAZER

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Ken Light

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raisindot

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Here we go...

fla-gypsy

It was Reagan's idea back in the 80's. Whether a satellite or on a ship, or mounted to a truck I don't care. I hope the technoogy continues to push forward to create that laser umbrella that he wanted.

Amos Umwhat

Amos Umwhat

fla-gypsy:

It was Reagan's idea back in the 80's. Whether a satellite or on a ship, or mounted to a truck I don't care. I hope the technoogy continues to push forward to create that laser umbrella that he wanted.

Whatever works. Hey, think we could long distance fry a sandwich in the N. Korean leaders hand?

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beatnic

I'm thinking that Reagan would have been laughed at and run out of town had he suggested we use drones in fighting a war. It was a different time. Conservative philosophies have not changed. Neither have Socialism's.

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beatnic:

I'm thinking that Reagan would have been laughed at and run out of town had he suggested we use drones in fighting a war. It was a different time. Conservative philosophies have not changed. Neither have Socialism's.

Perhaps they would have laughed at the idea, but only because it wasn't technically feasible in the mid 1980s. I think any politician, liberal or conservative, who recommended Star Wars or anything that seemed science fiction in nature at the time would have been laughed out of office (I can imagine the roar of laughter from all sides of the aisle if "President" Mondale or Dukakis suggested such things. Talk about your mice roaring). But certainly very few Democrats resisted Reagan's attempts to end the Cold War by outspending the Soviets militarily. Reagan certainly oversaw the largest peacetime rise in military spending since Teddy Roosevelt expanded the Navy in his presidency. Reagan certainly faced no resistance on this spending from Tip O'Neill (and why would he, considering that a lot of this spending went to defense contractors in Massachusetts) or the Democrats during that time period. Heck, even I was in favor of this at the time and I never voted for the man. Ideology really doesn't matter in times or war or threats of war. Nearly all of the major wars in the 20th century were started (or escalated) by "liberal" Democratic presidents (Wilson, FDR, Truman, Kennedy).

beatnic

Kennedy was laughed at when he said we would put a man on the moon before the next century. And we did. We'd be nowhere without big dreamers, and they all got laughed at.

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