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Missile Defense

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 - 06:02pm Oct 17, 2003 EST (# 15207 of 15213)

"...The report states that there is a "peculiarly Japanese" logic to deploying missile defenses, as they are inherently defensive in character and thus present fewer problems for Japan's "Peace Constitution"..."

I might also add, for its neighbors.

Thanks bluestar. That's a pretty good example of what I was saying just above. The whole world would be a better place if everybody took that attitude toward defense. The need might eventually even go away if folks could go long enough without feeling threatened.

lchic - 07:19pm Oct 17, 2003 EST (# 15208 of 15213)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Marginot Line was begun ... ?

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/resources/soundscapes/POLCHRON.HTM

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Ran the length of the boundary France-Germany

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Maginot Line - now-picture

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1491/

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"Star Wars is a 'Marginot Line' in space, expensive, and vulnerable to counter-measures." - Andrei Sakharov, advisor to Mihail Gorbachev in 1987, in asserting that the missle defense initiatives in the U.S. should be of no particular concern to the Soviet Union because whatever would be put in place could be overwhelmed.

http://www.straighttalk101.org/Quotes1.html

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1980

Maybe Carter could condescend to consider letting civilian gays have some security clearances (as a consolation prize), but for men in uniform, he had to show the surprisingly conservative voters he would hold the Marginot line.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:Vla-HVKuuEEJ:members.aol.com/JBFreedom/zchap4.doc+marginot+line+collapse&hl=en&start=8&ie=UTF-8

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Things seem to have subsided on the Marginot Line that exists in the daily skirmishes on the front in the war between bookies and bettors

http://www.gamblersbook.com/ruchman26.htm

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Ephemera - Hobbiton 'marginot line' bunker design -- http://www.xenite.org/faqs/lotr_movie/news_0000/30.html http://www.hobbitontours.com/

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Using Proportional Reading students jump over the "Marginot Line". The student can see that subvocalization and total visual integration of each word is not necessary. The student quickly gains confidence and empowerment in avoiding these earlier restraining approaches. http://www.proportionalreading.com/theory.html

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France saw upcoming problems with Hitler a decade before WWII ... this being so --- would it have been possible to have averted WWII occuring?

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lchic - 07:29pm Oct 17, 2003 EST (# 15209 of 15213)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Leaping into the weekend -- a few days R&R with downtime ....

http://www.greenworks.tv/tvshow/water_quality/restand.html OUT

bluestar23 - 11:30pm Oct 17, 2003 EST (# 15210 of 15213)

WRC:

"the new order is built on a false premise, which makes it vulnerable to rapid crumbling."

But how the MD is perceived, perhaps as gradually strengthening, may be very different than how you perceive it...it will take a long time for MD to be proven "false", therefore there will be no "rapid" crumbling...

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