--- Max Sawicky <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>
> If anything, this
> reduces the case for Star Wars, and inflates
> the case for everything else.
>
Ananova :
US attacks 'invalidate Star Wars strategy'
A British professor says the suspected terrorist attacks in America invalidates George Bush's Star Wars strategy.
Professor Nick Cull says it proves the US cannot rely on missiles to protect itself.
Meanwhile, Reuters are reporting an Israeli journalist as saying Osama Bin Laden warned of an attack on the US three weeks ago.
Bin Laden - the world's most wanted terrorist - said there would be 'an unprecedented attack on the US for its support of Israel'.
Professor Cull, head of the Centre for American Studies at Leicester University, warns every major conflict involving the US began with what the Americans believed to be an unprovoked attack.
He told Ananova: "In 1898 the sinking of the battleship Maine started the Spanish American war.
"Then there was Pearl Harbour, attacks on American ships in the vicinity of Vietnam.
"One section of the American media has called these latest attacks 'a day that will live in the infamy of the 21st century'. That was a term used by Roosevelt in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour."
Professor Cull says people should not be quick to assume Middle East terrorists are behind the attacks.
He added: "This completely invalidates the Star Wars strategy. It confirms the problem is not missiles but terrorism - domestic or foreign. These co-ordinated attacks are on the twin centres of American power - military and finance."
Story filed: 16:07 Tuesday 11th September 2001
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