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From: sdd@pyuxh.UUCP (S Daniels)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: MX Victory for USSR (reposting)
Message-ID: <108@pyuxh.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Mar-85 18:08:17 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 30 18:08:17 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 31-Mar-85 04:09:15 EST
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ
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Now that the Reagan administration has its victories on MX
(at least for now), the Soviet government must be smiling.
They probably wanted us to build it all along.  Here's why.
 
1.  The US is diverting billions of dollars to deploy a system
    that is potentially unsound militarily.  That money in the
    long run could be better spent on other projects (stealth,
    Trident II missile, etc.).
2.  The non-stop debate on MX keeps the focus of opinion on the
    US, not on the USSR.
3.  This US will try to bargain with the MX in Geneva, and the
    Soviets won't buy it.  Why should they give up one of their
    newer systems for one of ours that is neither survivable
    nor of much strategic value?

Steve Daniels (Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ, !pyuxh!sdd)
(Apologies if duplicated, original garbled)