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From: Larry Kazdan
To: Toronto Star <lettertoed@thestar.ca>  bcsmith@thestar.ca
Subject: Re:  Trudeau weighs calls to join ballistic missile defence, Bruce Campion-Smith, Sept. 19, 2017

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/09/19/trudeau-weighs-calls-to-join-ballistic-missile-defence.html

After decades of research and development, an abysmal test record, and over forty billion dollars expended, the U.S. missile defense program has no proven capability to stop an incoming missile under real-world conditions. 

That politicians, pundits and ex-generals encourage Canadian involvement in this boondoggle should help us recall U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's stark cold-war era warning: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence..... by the military-industrial complex."

The Union of Concerned Scientists worries that unfounded faith in missile defence may encourage political and military decisions that only increase the risk of incoming attack. Canada should not actively support the U.S. missile defence charade, and should definitely not help pay for it. 

Footnotes:

1. Shielded from Oversight: The Disastrous US Approach to Strategic Missile Defense (2016)

http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/us-missile-defense/shielded-from-oversight#.Wa8Er-mQyUl

"In the 15 years since Bush�s order, the GMD system consistently failed intercept tests�six out of nine�despite heavily-scripted test conditions that don�t mirror real-world conditions. Countermeasures were never addressed, and administration officials never offered a credible technical approach or vision on how to do so.

To date, the system has cost more than $40 billion�and there�s no end in sight."

2. Shielded from Oversight: The Disastrous US Approach to Strategic Missile Defense

http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/07/Shielded-from-Oversight-executive-summary.pdf

"Insufficient oversight has not only exacerbated the GMD system�s problems, but has

obscured their full extent, which could encourage politicians and military leaders

to make decisions that actually increase the risk of a missile attack against the United States."          

3. Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."

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