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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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rshow55 - 03:23pm Jun 12, 2003 EST (# 12501 of 12517)
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.

I've broken my promises to Eisenhower and others - I promised that I would never, under any circumstances, reveal my relationship with Eisenhower except face to face to a proper authority. The time finally came where it seemed to me that, to keep faith with the things I promised Eisenhower I'd try to do, I had to break that promise.

Here are postings from a Guardian Talk thread from

gwbl , that I thought might be of interest. Perhaps some people associated with the President have similar thoughts. The postings deal with issues of unity and loyalty - and don't mention issues of technical right and wrong at all.

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gwbl - 11:27pm Jun 11, 2003 BST (#549 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b23c/564

An excellent professor of literature gave me this great advice:

ANALYSIS:

Analyse every piece of information, in print or verbal or visual. Whenever you get a book or publication in your hands you must first do the following checking:

1) WHO ? - Find out who's the author

2) WHEN ? - Find out when was it released.

3) FOR WHOM ? - Find out for whom was it released.

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gwbl - 11:38pm Jun 11, 2003 BST (#550 of 555) http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b23c/565

ON LIBERTY From my own personal experience I can say it's extremely important to know who is our enemy.

The problem is that some people don't have a conscience and they are supporting their own enemy.

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I have a strong, well informed conscience, and I haven't written anything on this thread I wouldn't have be prepared to defend to either William J. Casey or Dwight D. Eisenhower - or to anyone else who will use his name in public.

To do jobs that I have to do - that I have promised to do - I have to meet standard persuasive criteria.

rshow55 - 03:24pm Jun 12, 2003 EST (# 12502 of 12517)
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.

A man I very much respect sent me a list of Questions that Bob Showalter will be asked and will have to answer:

1. Vision: What do you see as the ultimate result of your efforts?

2. Assumption: What do you assume regarding the outcome of your efforts?

3. Mission: What have you committed yourself to accomplishing?

4. Strength: What do you bring to this effort, in terms of personal qualities and resources?

5. Weakness: What does this effort require that you may not be able to provide? Capitalization -- clarity - marketing -- positioning in the minds of others-- time-staff - -

6. Opportunity: What opportunities do you see for advancing your project?

7. Threat: What forces or circumstances exist that threaten to hinder your project?

8. Goal: What do you want to accomplish?

9. Strategy: How do you propose to accomplish those goals? What alternative strategies exist?

10. Critical success factor: What must you achieve if you expect to succeed? What will kill the project if you fail to achieve it?

11. Objective: What milestones have you set for measuring your progress toward your goal?

12. Policy: What rules of practice have you set for yourself?

13. Tactic: What methods are you going to use to advance toward your goals? When and how are you going to apply them?

14. Task: What actions will you take?

15. Who are you?

16. Why should I listen?

17. Why should I listen to you ?

18. Why do you address me ?

19. Why do you address me now ?

20. Why do you address me in this way ?

21. What are the facts?

22. What conclusions do you draw from those facts?

23. What evidence do you have to substantiate those conclusions?

I found that I couldn't answer these questions, with reasonable and balanced context information, without setting out my background from 1967. To answer them, I've had to have a history.

I'm sure some people think I'm moving slowly - but I'm also trying to move carefully - and I believe that I am doing just exactly what I promised D.D. Eisenhower and W.J. Casey that I'd try to do. And serving the national interest, by high standards, while doing so.

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