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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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fredmoore - 01:09am Jul 20, 2003 EST (# 13058 of 13060)

"Maybe we could start with something small? Something that an old, commercially driven railroad lawyer like Lincoln might enjoy."

1. Small? You cannot get any smaller project which will bind all nations in genuine respect and interest than KAEP.

2. If Lincoln was just a commercially driven railroad lawyer then a WHALE is just a fish.

3. Lincoln's vision was for a Union of ALL states, a United States. He maintained th vision against fierce and lethal opposition by big corporations and landholders but but he had an overwhelming majority of public support. His vision was not a small undertaking and it cost him his life.

4. Clearly, what Lincoln would enjoy, now, today, as documented in his writings, is a United States of the World.

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