American Voices

The Missile-Defense Standoff

August 1, 2001 | ISSUE 37•26

The U.S. and Russia are clashing over the Bush Administration's plans to develop a missile-defense system, which would defy 1972's ABM Treaty. What do you think?

  • Good for Bush. I always thought Clinton was a little weak in the pissing- off-the-Russians-over- nuclear-weapons department.

    Carl Cox
    Systems Analyst

  • Do you realize that the U.S. and Russia have held enough disarmament talks to bore the world to death 50 times over?

    Dana Coleman
    Homemaker

  • I've got a missile-defense idea: We genetically engineer a race of bird-men to fly up and defuse the missiles with their beaks. That'd be cheaper and just as effective.

    Irene Schmid
    Arts Administrator

  • Gee, George, way to telegraph the sneak attack. Now they'll totally know.

    Bill Poulent
    Cab Driver

  • Speaking of which, don't use the can for a while. I just violated one hell of a B.M. Treaty myself.

    Bobby Post
    Landscaper

  • As Kenny Rogers says, you gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em; know when to walk away, know when to use humanity as a bargaining chip in a game of nuclear brinksmanship.

    Don Banks
    Podiatrist

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