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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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lchic - 09:41pm Aug 20, 2002 EST (# 3855 of 3866)

A further thought here re journalism :

Foreign Correspondents 'die' in the field as they search for 'truth'

Homeland Corespondents don't 'die' often enough .. looking for Washington Political Truths ... WHY NOT ?!!

mazza9 - 10:39pm Aug 20, 2002 EST (# 3856 of 3866)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Robert

You speak of $Trillion Dollar errors but you won't name ONE! What is it called when one speaks from on high. When you deign to share a few crumbs with the masses.

does the term PONTFICATE ring a bell?

lchic:Yes its too bad that war fighting is learned in lieu of more fruitfull pursuits. Hate is easily learned. Just look at the radical Muslims who are taught that its okay to gas dogs, (the CNN Tapes!), in preparation for gasing your fellow man. Where is the justification for that hate? Oops, I forgot you seem quite capable of justifying murder. I'm not!

LouMazza

almarst2002 - 11:38pm Aug 20, 2002 EST (# 3857 of 3866)

mazza - "Just look at the radical Muslims who are taught that its okay to gas dogs...in preparation for gasing your fellow man."

1914 - 2002. It took them 98 years to just try and learn the lesson... And they are far from being there... yet.

1945 - ????. The A-bombs lesson learned?

almarst2002 - 11:40pm Aug 20, 2002 EST (# 3858 of 3866)

mazza - "Where is the justification for that hate?"

I hope you tell me!

lchic - 02:23am Aug 21, 2002 EST (# 3859 of 3866)

It may be that USA foreign policy has for decades been built on 'spin'

The makers of policy look into a mirror that reflects and justifies themselves - the PR persons therein being paid by and on the staff of the same

A real democracy would certainly call upon the expertise of the University Scholars - who have travelled to the four corners of the earth - so that increased understanding can be attained prior to policy formation

The question raised again and again has to be - why doesn't the USA set out to 'improve the lot' of the international 'common man' rather than bomb him .... and her ... and the children ... and leave the lasting legacy of unexploded mines and cluster bombs for him .... and her ... and their children

The answer, after the removal of the dominoes, is simply guardianship of oil - and oil wells and cartels - and the black-gold-oil-flow into bank accounts of a favoured few ... many with a 'tx' address

Connecting the oil well dots ... those black gushing dots ... 'if that were more widely known and became part of the culture' (as Showalter would say) ... much of C20 C21 history would be easily understood. Almarst certainly saw those gushing dots and pointed them out to this MD board readership

lchic - 02:29am Aug 21, 2002 EST (# 3860 of 3866)

Dose anyone have a solution as to how not to kill by stoning the woman in Northern Nigeria

Is she seen as an economic threat

A moral threat

A burden

Or what?

If some fund that donated to third world projects syphoned a steady stream of cash into her village giving her stewardship

Would the equation change in her favour

Or does the solution run the range of 'ignore - let her die' to 'eliminate the whole village by means of sky'

Why does ONE WOMAN become a WORLD HEADLINE ?

Is the world impotent?

lchic - 03:31am Aug 21, 2002 EST (# 3861 of 3866)

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