From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 18:01:01 MDT
--- Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> <<http://www.msnbc.com/news/795677.asp?cp1=1
> <<THE MEMO, delivered last month, reflects heightened concern by
> Rumsfeld and senior aides about the ready availability around the
> world of cruise missile technology and the continued vulnerability
> of U.S. troops and population
> centers to attack by the low-flying, hard-to-detect weapons,
> according to officials familiar with the memo.
> The Bush administration has made development of anti-missile
> systems a top priority. But its focus has been on defending against
> ballistic missiles,
> which arc through the sky after launch and tend to be bigger, more
> costly and longer range than cruise missiles, which are self-
> propelled, lower-flying and more transportable, therefore posing a
> different set of defensive challenges.>>
>
> Its better to look into the abyss now, in these posts, then look into
> the
> real abyss, after a major American city falls like the Twin Trade
> Towers did.
> Then, after the first few days of shock by the American peole will
> come a
> demand for vengence, that will make me seem the voice of pacifism.
>
"Seem"? ;) Fortunately, it's not that difficult a problem to deal with
cruise missiles. The blimp mounted radars used to detect low flying
drug planes can be used and built upon to combat the cruise missile
threat, so long as the terrorist cruise missiles don't use any stealth
technology.
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