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From: "James Gibbon" <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [SHADO] Re: Why is SHADO entirely defensive?


> "Natasha Bell" wrote:
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> > Expensive? War is always expensive! "Innocent Aliens" What?
> > Killing everyone in Iraq or Iran because of a madman sounds very
> > much like what Bin Laden wants to do to all Christians.

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Hey Tash;

Bringing up the War on Terror issue might not be a good analogy on this
list, as those of us on this side of the pond have a distinctly different
attitude than the Europeans do.

In just this case of UFO, however, I have to agree with James on this
point - right now, we are just a food source to these guys, if we become an
active hostile threat, they might retaliate with a full scale war, and we
have no idea what their full scale capabilities are against us should we
truly activate them.

At the least, we would need a whole heck of a lot more forward
reconniassance done on their whole homeworld situation than we did with that
pitiful little probe in "Close Up". We're talking about years of
intelligence gathering.

Next, you've got to face the simple and brutal fact that we'd be facing
a star traveling civilization immensely beyond our own capabilities, given
that they routinely make the trip, and we only made it once, in some still
inexplicable way.

It is better for us to deal with them in their "calm" state here on our
own turf, picking off their occasional hunting parties, rather than "awaken
the sleeping dragon" just yet, before we've done enough of the necessary
homework to handle the consequences that would result.

Perhaps that would have been good territory for a follow up season of
the show, had it been continued.

But once you do pick that fight, you'd better be pretty damned prepared
for it, and it's real hard to image our 1980's civilization being able to
handle fighting one that's advanced thousands of years ahead of it....

The biological approach is probably the best over the nuclear.
Transporting thousands of pounds of biological agent over stellar distances
is infinitly preferable to moving thousands of tons of nuclear armaments
that same distance. Bio agents might also be able to be specifically
tailored to hit only the alien species and miss the rest of the planet's
life forms.....

But then, those guys are pretty well advanced medically, they might be
able to antidote it within the first hours after we release it.....After
all, highly advance civilzation beyond our own.....

Looks like you've got your work cut out for you Agent Tashabelle ; )

Dave H.