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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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gisterme - 01:48am Mar 18, 2003 EST (# 10152 of 10161)

lchic - 12:54am Mar 18, 2003 EST (# 10142 of ...) http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.IdMzaU6R6tz.2519716@.f28e622/11686

"An important point that came through media coverage on Iraq relates to the people of Iraq feeling and knowing that they WILL be in charge of their own future --- ..."

Of course they will, lchic. Has this concept just occured to you? Nobody honest has ever said, suggested or implied that anybody but the Iraqi people should be in charge of their future after Saddam's gone. Those who have tried to imply otherwise as part of their propaganda are those who will say whatever is necessary to advance their own agendas. That's just the kind of stuff that almarst laps up like a cat on cream because it fits her agenda.

lchic - 01:50am Mar 18, 2003 EST (# 10153 of 10161)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Statues ... 'He's a Yesterday Man'

Interesting that Status might represent either 'Libery' or 'Repression'

... nevertheless in the post-war era they can be coralled into money-spinning tourist theme parks ...

History - culture

Culture - History

Dollars - Dollars

lchic - 02:02am Mar 18, 2003 EST (# 10154 of 10161)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

In charge of their future - -- - just recalling impressions from media coverage ... which suggested that until the post-war withdrawal of assisting miltary the Iraqi's might not 'feel' themselves to be 'in charge' of their own futures.

Didn't Robert Fisk previously note the 'MOUSE' factor ... especially when the mice were dominated by local tyranical rats.

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There are great Islamic art collections that must gender a sense of pride, culture, and history for the Middle East.

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=14

http://www.islamicart.com/

http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/islamic/artofobject1a.htm

lchic - 05:20am Mar 18, 2003 EST (# 10155 of 10161)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

More than half the Iraqi population are minors

The noise of bombs and bombing - will it traumatise?

rshow55 - 08:47am Mar 18, 2003 EST (# 10156 of 10161)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

They will. A lot of people will have "fractured minds" - and will have to sort a lot out. That can be healthy - or terrible.

There's going to be a lot of craziness - at a lot of human and organizational levels - under the best of circumstances.

Even though the best of circumstances could be, on balance, pretty good.

Under easily imaginable circumstances - much worse.

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