Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft Is Proposed for Voyage to Jupiter Moons

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:29:46 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
LooseChanj made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

On or about Fri, 19 Dec 2003 06:39:19 -0800 (PST), Rand Simberg made the sensational claim that:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:04:39 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Tony Sivori made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
Hey, that's quite a bargain compared to $87 Billion (for starters) to pull
a deposed despot out of a hole in the ground.

We're getting much more than that for the money.

Like what? And don't even think about saying anything along the lines of
"a safer world".

Well, it's OT, but we are. (Follow-ups to s.s.p, please)

We are now able to remove all of our troops from Saudi-controlled
Arabia, removing an irritant to the Muslims, and freeing them up for
other duty. We'll be bringing on a new source of oil that can be used
to leverage the Saudis to stop funding terrorism. We have a base on
the borders of two of the major terrorist states, Iran and Syria, from
which we can go in and clean out the nests there if need be. We have
a basis to build a successful Arab nation that can serve as a means of
draining the current Arabian swamp. We've destroyed the myth of the
Arab strong man, which may give us an opportunity to replace it with
something that works and doesn't support terror. We've removed a
major threat to Israel, and induced a split in the Arab world on that
subject, making it easier to reach an accommodation with it to settle
the Middle East conflict. We've set an example of what happens when
dictators ignore U.N. resolutions (Baby Assad now appears to want to
do a deal). We've gathered a treasure trove of intelligence (much of
which, I suspect, will prove very damaging to President Chirac, and is
probably already being used to get him to heel by Jim Baker). We're
killing lots of terrorists, many of whom are Al Qaeda, and we're doing
it there instead of here. And last, but not least, we've ended the
rape rooms and torture chambers.

The list goes on.

in article ,
rand simberg wrote:

|Hey, that's quite a bargain compared to $87 Billion (for starters) to pull
|a deposed despot out of a hole in the ground.
|
| We're getting much more than that for the money.
|
|Like what? And don't even think about saying anything along the lines of
|"a safer world".
|
|Well, it's OT, but we are. (Follow-ups to s.s.p, please)
|
|We are now able to remove all of our troops from Saudi-controlled
|Arabia, removing an irritant to the Muslims, and freeing them up for
|other duty. We'll be bringing on a new source of oil that can be used
|to leverage the Saudis to stop funding terrorism. We have a base on
|the borders of two of the major terrorist states, Iran and Syria, from
|which we can go in and clean out the nests there if need be. We have
|a basis to build a successful Arab nation that can serve as a means of
|draining the current Arabian swamp. We've destroyed the myth of the
|Arab strong man, which may give us an opportunity to replace it with
|something that works and doesn't support terror. We've removed a
|major threat to Israel, and induced a split in the Arab world on that
|subject, making it easier to reach an accommodation with it to settle
|the Middle East conflict. We've set an example of what happens when
|dictators ignore U.N. resolutions (Baby Assad now appears to want to
|do a deal). We've gathered a treasure trove of intelligence (much of
|which, I suspect, will prove very damaging to President Chirac, and is
|probably already being used to get him to heel by Jim Baker). We're
|killing lots of terrorists, many of whom are Al Qaeda, and we're doing
|it there instead of here. And last, but not least, we've ended the
|rape rooms and torture chambers.
|
|The list goes on.

we've ended an ill-conceived decade-long embargo that accomplished
just about nothing except punishing the wrong people and making more
enemies than necessary, and we've ended it without the kinds of
problems that would have come from just walking away from it.




















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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:35:31 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
(James Dolan) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

we've ended an ill-conceived decade-long embargo that accomplished
just about nothing except punishing the wrong people and making more
enemies than necessary, and we've ended it without the kinds of
problems that would have come from just walking away from it.

Yes, that's another one.

Not to mention that apparently Mr. Khaddafi had visions of himself
being pulled out of a rathole today, and is starting to talk turkey,
and Prince Bandar is obviously getting nervous, too, because he
lectured the EU on their non-support of the war and post war.

There's a new sheriff in town.