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Article #31858The useless Star Wars program:
From: torresD
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 07:49
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 07:49
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6750414/site/newsweek/ The useless Star Wars program: The Pentagon delayed the latest test of this fanciful idea until after the election, and when the emerging technology flunked the test, a Pentagon spokesman insisted it didn't fail, that it was "incomplete." Such Orwellian language has given rise to a popular bumper sticker in Washington: BUSH-ORWELL '04. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. A missile-defense system is religion to the right. onservatives believe in it as an act of faith. Even though the more likely threats to the nation come from a suitcase bomb, the Bush administration continues to pour billions into Star Wars, a construct of the cold war. The assault on the teaching of evolution: We thought this was settled 79 years ago at the 1925 trial of a high-school biology teacher in Tennessee, when celebrated defense attorney Clarence Darrow represented John Scopes in the legendary Scopes "monkey trial." Now Christian fundamentalists are hawking a new theory, intelligent design, which posits a God-like figure overseeing evolution. Critics call it "creationism dressed up in a lab coat." What's next? The earth is really flat?
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