“星球大战”防御计划:
The so-called “Star War” defense initiative, championed by Reagan administration during the 1980s. In retrospect, this initiative was ill-conceived and largely a waste of taxpayer dollars; and few would dispute that exorbitant amount of money devoted to the initiative could have gone a long way toward addressing pressing social problems of the day. As it turns out, at the end of the Star War’s debacle we were left with rampant gang violence, an AIDS epidemic, and an unprecedented federal budget deficit.
