The problem with that theory

Post #50,570 by JayMehaffey 9/5/02 1:02:03 AM Reply	The problem with that theory That theory has been advanced by a lot of people to support the Republican party. The problem is that there is no reason to believe it's true, there is no evidence to suggest that the goal of Star Wars was anything other then the stated one. That it happened to bring down the government of Russia accidently was nice, but not a good reason to support those people now. More over, their history in South America is a good reason not to support them. In South America they did stop the communists, but they also stopped the democrats and all other reformers. As for Saddam supporting the radical Palastinians, AFAIK, the only thing he has done is give money to suicide bombers. Not a good thing but mostly a publicity stunt to build up support among Arabs. Jay
Post #50,630 by Brandioch 9/5/02 12:56:01 PM Reply	Reasons to believe that it isn't true. Our intelligence organizations did NOT know how badly off the Russian economy was. We running massive red ink then, also. If we had kept it up, we might have been the ones bankrupt.
Post #50,656 by wharris2 9/5/02 4:04:44 PM Reply	(cynical) Doesn't matter anyway We running massive red ink then, also. If we had kept it up, we might have been the ones bankrupt. Back when we were running our (largely imaginary) surplus, everyone and his dog in Congress was falling all over themselves trying to get their own particular brand of pork into any and every bill. Business as usual, regardless of who had control of which branch of government. The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle

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