Rep. Courter, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, had been pressing for termination of the ABM (Anti-Ballistic-Missile) treaty, and he makes his case dashingly here. JC: "Let's say it's 1997, and you're President of the United States, and there's a confirmed launching of a sea-launched ballistic missile--one--aimed at the United States. What would you do if you won this debate today and we didn't have any type of defensive capability?" Examiner* Mark Green: "I would say, 'That congressman, he made it more likely the Soviets would launch a first strike because of his insane technology called SDI' " JC: "I asked a legitimate question. What would you do?" MG: "And I answered it. It's more likely that we would have a war because of your system." JC: "The question is: What would you do? The answer is: You couldn't do anything. You'd watch it come."