The United States is obliged by economic realities and plain common sense to utilize technologies now in hand that would permit such a defense and such a deterrence option on a global basis and at the lowest possible cost namely, space-based interceptor and sensor technologies derided as "Star Wars" by the Clinton Administration and virtually defunded by its FY94 budget.

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From Washington, Katty has covered sex scandals in the Clinton administration, three Presidential elections as well as wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

BBC: US & Canada

After eight years of peacekeeping drudgery under Bill Clinton, the armed forces have a hawkish president and wars to fight.

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