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Novak claims that the nation's Roman Catholic bishops "go too far when they get into specific judgments about military strategy and weapons systems such as the MX"; they are addressing matters outside their expertise. The same complaint was made when C & C condemned the use of obliteration bombing in World War II. Responding to critics, Niebuhr wrote in 1944: "Laymen are not capable of judging detailed problems of strategy, but general principles of strategy ought to remain under democratic scrutiny. The military mind is inclined to disregard moral and political factors in strategy. It is the business...
...tone somber, his message meant to be reassuring. "Our children should not grow up frightened," Ronald Reagan said. "They should not fear the future." But the President's approach to preventing nuclear war was of itself, and necessarily, a frightening thing: he urged deployment of 100 huge new MX intercontinental ballistics missiles in a Dense Pack cluster near Cheyenne...
High-priced military hardware--like the Pershing--makes Reagan Administration pulses pound with enthusiasm. The armsracing Californians who run the Pentagon have ushered in a host of shiny new weapons systems: the B-IB bomber, the MX missile, the M-1 tank, the F-18 fighter, and a whole military-industrial complex--full of other guns, planes, helicopters, ships and missiles. The Administration's emphasis on military technology has dramatically increased the Pentagon's already-bloated procurement budget. From 1981 to 1983, procurement spending rose nearly three times as fast as total defense spending. But because of incompetent management...
...Soviet Union would also "be rethinking their military options" if the recently proposed MX missile receives approval for deployment which the Russian said would "upset the current strategic balance...
...also argued that it was perfectly moral for the U.S. to make certain that "our deterrent forces remain sufficiently strong and credible to assure effective deterrence." The goal, he said, is "to prevent war and preserve the values we cherish." As for the bishops' stance on the MX, the Administration argues that their opposition to the development of more sophisticated weapons would reduce the prospects of limiting a nuclear...