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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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lchic - 08:13pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (# 16237 of 16302)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Cantabb did i say i'd been talking to Showalter for four years or did i say we were into our fourth year of talking .....

As above Cantabb --- you've issued the challenge to Showalter to do what he says and deliver the goods - so to speak.

Are the problems handed to him by Eisenhower simple or complex ... obviously complex or Ike would have solved them for himself.

Showalter says he has solutions to complex - inter/national stumpers ... Cantabb wants to knowm more .... William CASEY advised Showalter that 'when he had answers to come in through the New York Times' .... Showalter says HE HAS ANSWERS ....

So what's the hitch Cantabb ... if Showalter's life's work is in the true National Interest - why not ease it through rather than BLOCK it?

bluestar23 - 08:28pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (# 16238 of 16302)

"Showalter's life's work is in the true National Interest - why not ease it through rather than BLOCK it?'

Because the basic "claim" itself is so ridiculous and moronic (like You both) that there is no need for a RATIONAL person to listen to it in the FIRST Place...

lchic - 08:28pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (# 16239 of 16302)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Showalter says the National Times is a fine institution - the best America has ...

What is it that makes a paper great?

Was the Times once great - or - is the Times still Great?

What is it that makes a paper?

Is it management or readership ... or the marrying of each to the other.

Who's at the helm? Who used to be at the helm? With these people would the interests of the entity be paramount? What are the interests of the entity.

S U R V I V A L

is often the first interest

and the NYT has survived for a long long time

to survive has to mean being in tune with the TRUE INTERESTS of the readership

And so the Captains of NYT have had to have demonstrated and catered to both internal and external environmental demands upon it in a regardful and prioritized order.

Where the NYT is a customer of yet another entity - and the same a custmer of it, then, there has to be careful thought and consideration as to how to steer forward through historical time zones with due regard to moral responsibilities for the wider community.

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lchic - 08:30pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (# 16240 of 16302)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Speaking historically a french constitutional philosopher looked over to England and saw a well run ship sailing on calm waters as cp to the chaos of Europe.

What made England 'different' he asked.

lchic - 08:32pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (# 16241 of 16302)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Showlater had you called in at Chicago Uni you might have viewed this document:

.... Were this a true Representative, and free from external Force or private Bribery, nothing could pass there but what they thought was for the publick Advantage. For their own Interest is so interwoven with the Peoples, that if they act for themselves (which every one of them will do as near as he can) they must act for the common Interest of England. And if a few among them should find it their Interest to abuse their Power, it will be the Interest of all the rest to punish them for it: and then our Government would act mechanically, and a Rogue will as naturally be hang'd as a Clock strike twelve when the hour is come. This is the Fountain-Head from whence the People expect all their Happiness, and the Redress of their Grievances; and if we can preserve them free from Corruption, they will take care to keep every body else so. .....

lchic - 08:33pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (# 16242 of 16302)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Separation of Powers

is an important concept for smooth sailing. It enables one zone to moderate and 'check' another.

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