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In article <31D8668E.E2A@fas.org> John Pike <johnpike@fas.org> writes:

> No, I am assuming that states with sufficient resources to
> build long-range ballistic missiles with weapons of mass
> destruction are capable of exhibiting rational behavior in the
> face of a clear and present danger of gettin vaporized.

The Nazis had that sort of resources for their time but not
the rationality; (okay, they did have the rationality in their
highest ranks, but they botched the job of trying to blow up
the source of their irrationality).

> 1 - State-sponsored terrorist *organizations* generally exhibit
> pretty rational behavior, even if we might not seek to emulate
> the behavior of their adherents.

But these organizations don't seem to have the tightest of controls.

> 2 - I agree that over the next five years or so, as we start
> warming up to the new Millennium [check out the traffic on
> some of the relevant newsgroups] that things might start to
> get interesting, but BMD and ICBMs have nothing to do with this.

Don't tell me *you* think the poles are going to shift...

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