<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:46 PM, spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1945752885151797594WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1945752885151797594WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>John you grossly underestimate the capabilities of the military sir. Perhaps you heard of last week’s successful launch of SBIRS? An excellent product it is indeed, built by a fine company:<u></u><u></u><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/sbirs.html" target="_blank">http://www.lockheedmartin.com/<wbr>us/products/sbirs.html</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Something like that might be effective if North Korea fired just one ICBM at the USA, but it will never work against a massive attack because as you say in another post it's very expensive. That shouldn't be surprising, it's harder to shoot a bullet with a bullet than it is to just fire a bullet. If it takes a dollar to shoot down a nickel's worth of hardware the enemy can just outspend you, especially because your defence has to be virtually perfect or it's not worth doing, if only 1% of the many thousands of warheads gets through we're toast. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">And if North Korea wants to send a package f</font>rom Pyongyang to Washington, a package containing a H-bomb for example, sticking it on top of a ICBM would be one way of delivering it, but there are other ways, like UPS. And unlike a ICBM if UPS was used it wouldn't have an obvious return address on it, it's just that one day Washington would be there and the next day it wouldn't. No warning no nothing, just boom. </font></div></div><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1945752885151797594WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>SBIRS prevents a flock of geese from triggering World War 3.<p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">There are lots of unpleasant wake up calls the POTUS could get a 3am: " Mr. President there has been a coup in Pakistan and factions linked to ISIS now have control of the country's nuclear arsenal, what do you want us to do?". And </font></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Trump could receive a potentially apocalyptic 3am phone call that doesn't directly involve nukes. North Korea has <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">thousands</div> of <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">long range 170mm</div> guns dug in and aimed south; in <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">less than </div>2 hours they could send a million artillery shells into downtown Seoul, a city of <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">24</div> million people. It would be by far the greatest bloodbath since World War 2. I'm not sure what the USA should do in a situation like that, but I do know I'd rather have Obama receive that 3am phone call than Trump. </font></span></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote " style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;border-right-width:1px;border-right-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-right-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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