My thinking on this is that Russia is not the threat it once was and thus a land based system is not needed. As i said, we have Patriot systems all over the world and a new system is overkill. -----Original Message----- Date: Friday, September 18, 2009 10:18:46 am To: "cf-community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> From: "Sam" <sammyc...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Obama does good
So the "old" system is still being built. The new system is the old system but on ships. So what happened? Did we just hand Russia a carrot while Poland an Czech Rep got the stick? Did anything really change or is this political maneuvering. I'm asking because I can seem to find details about what changed. On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As much as I do not like Obama and over 90% of his policies, I have to > admit that yesterdays speech about scrapping the missile defense shield > in Europe is a smart move. I was never really a big fan of this system > as I thought it was unnecessary. His current plan of using ships for > potential threats by Iran is a lot smarter and much more cost effective. > We have plenty of Patriot missile systems all over the world and this > system has proven to work. We already have ships so the initial cost > outlay has been realized. Use what we have rather than build expensive > and redundant systems. Nice job Mr. Prez. Now if he could only apply the > same common sense to other things we will be in good shape. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:304442 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
