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REAGAN'S STAR WARS The alias for his Strategic Defense Initiative. The Pentagon now says SDI will start up by the time Episode III opens...
...will reform Social Security and Medicare, sparing our children from struggles we have the power to prevent. And we will reduce taxes, to recover the momentum of our economy and reward the effort and enterprise of working Americans. We will build our defenses beyond challenge" - that would be SDI - "lest weakness invite challenge." And those faith-based organizations? "They will have an honored place in our plans and laws," Bush declared. "Compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government...
...Democrat Steven Spielberg - was represented by his ever-popular "Star Wars Theme," though it was unclear if it had been selected for its subtle call to arms for the impending battle against the evil empire of liberalism or because it was perceived to be a campaign tune promoting the SDI program...
...reluctant to give Reagan credit for his diplomatic poker playing. Genrikh Trofimenko, once a Brezhnev adviser and U.S. expert at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, has stated that "99 percent of Russian people believe that [America] won the Cold War because of your President's insistence on SDI...
Reagan's idea - salvation by a defensive techno-magic that outwits apocalypse - was hardly an ignoble one. It partakes of that masterful innocence and metaphysical optimism that is the essence of Reagan. In theory SDI does not seem more harebrained than, say, eventually putting colonies in space. So far, $60 billion has gone into Star Wars, and the idea is still alive...