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Show M, a "sponge" for taesm mbbIIgs? were dropped on each of the likely targets already in Utah. IPP, Kennecott, military bases, rail traffic on the U.P. and Rto Grande, uranium uran-ium mines, Tooele Army Depot De-pot and many more are already al-ready genuine targets. The U.S., not just Utah, is already a sponge. A good defense prevents offensive conflicts. If the of a target with MX, it is also probably equally true that Utah is less likely to be attacked with MX deployed de-ployed due to its overall deterrent factors. BY DALE WHIPPLE FROM The Millard County Gazette From the Millard County Gazette One of the cries raised far and wide by Anti MX - groups isthatthedeploymcut MX can be shown to be the best weapons system available avail-able at this time, then it should be deployed to prevent pre-vent conflicts not create them. T Conclusion: Utah is already al-ready a sponge. While it Is definitely true that Utah-Nevada Utah-Nevada would become mor Utah becomes a sponge only if a real war becomes a reality not when a board game is being played. Utah is already a target. Do you think that surviving Utahns could ever lead a normal life again If bombs M aM&h. "You need never worry about being replaced by automation, Frisby. They haven't yet invented a machine that does absolutely nothing." of the MX Missile in this area will make Utah and Nevada the sponge of the free world, absorbing thousands thous-ands of Soviet nuclear warheads war-heads as they try to knock out the shell hidden missiles. mis-siles. On the surface their reasoning sounds impressive, impres-sive, and I have to admit I too was impressed by this form of logic when I first heard it. But upon further examination I find their arguments ar-guments weak and without balance. Point 1. The least understood un-derstood by most people is the fact that the current conflict with the Soviets is a 'board game. Point 2. We are already a target, or a sponge. Point 3. The MX is designed de-signed as a deterrent to stop just such a scenario from happening. 1. Anyone who has ever played chess or poker knows what happens if you SHOW your weaknesses to your opponent. op-ponent. They also know the value and the Importance of BLUFF. And they know the Importance of staying even, or ahead In the game and how hard it is to catch up if you get behind. The loss of the pawn is not crucial, cru-cial, but it gives the leverage lever-age to the other side and and strategy develop. If he has truly declared peace his pieces will be moved back and forth on his own side of the board safely covered cover-ed by his own men. If he constantly skirts your men, cashes in and out behind your front lines you can be assured it is a ploy. To the Soviets parity and SALT II is only a ploy. The Future? Imagine the next possible scenario with Russia about to become an importer of oil instead of an exporter as they have been in the past. Point number 1 then is that what is being fought is a board game. It does no use to make statements that we already have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the entire en-tire world, unless you know we will have all of those weapons available to use at the time of the crisis. puts him in the Driver's seat. What most people don't stop to think of is that what is being played today is a gigantic board game. How many times have you chessplayers had an opponent oppon-ent trade even for your queen when he Is behind by even a pawn? Almost never. But if it is an even game, and he can gain position with a trade, he will many times trade even, if only to mess up your strategy. Think back to when the Cuban missile crisis was taking place. When President Presi-dent Kennedy finally put his foot down and told the Russians Rus-sians to get out of Cuba with their missiles. He told them it was unacceptable. What did the Russians do? They got out! Why? Was Russia in a position to win a war if one was fought? No. The U.S. was clearly a military superior. Did either side want war? No. It was a board game. Now we have another case. This time it is played with, a backdrop of Parity. What is parity? Well, in chess it is a draw. No one is ahead when you have parity. Is that good? It is teriffic if both sides are not trying to gain an advantage ad-vantage out of it. But if one side tries to use it for its own purposes it would work this way; both would agree to just move around the board and not take any of the other man's pieces. But the one trying to gain out of it would really be waitingfor the perfect per-fect layout to cripple his opponent op-ponent without him being able to strike back. Parity is really a ploy to guarantee that he has enough men left in position when the opportunity oppor-tunity comes, and it is only a matter of time before the opportunity will come along. How can you tell if one player is playing the parity ploy for advantage or ' is sincere? Watch his moves |
