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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 - 10:32pm Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4242 of 4250)

Standards (1) - Quality - testing

It seems the USA press largely ignored 'the other side' in the Middle East Israeli (v Others) war

Not putting both sides was a disgrace - shortchanging the intelligence of the American People who were fed skewed propaganda.

Now the Israeli camp are running USA foreign policy once more .... taking the USA kids into a WAR in the ME ... first into Iraq (a ten year stint) to oust the badman ... then the countries around .... supposedly to instate democracy.

How democratic is the Israeli/Palestine situation?

What 'standards' 'quality' and lifestyle can a Palestinian currently enjoy - 65%unemployment - genocide.

A trouble spot is the MIND of the Saudi Arabians - who were behind 9/11, behind suicide bombing in Palestine ... why not go in and sort out Saudi?

Seems that those who warn that the Middle East might 'blow-up' ... OUT OF CONTROL ... as the USA wills many countries into Chaos ... have a reason to think that way!

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lchic - 10:37pm Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4243 of 4250)

Standards (2) - Quality - testing

All countries should enjoy 'civil' rule ... countries are composed of peoples with many different belief systems.

If all belief systems were set one against the other - to determine via weighting which were good and progressive, mediocre, poor and falling behind ... then as in the recent report on Arab states there are definate LAGs in that geographic area of North Africa and the Middle East.

Using women as an indicator - how do they fair?

Could the women of these zones be 'helped' to improve their status, education, job opportunities, career prospects ..... creatively how could this be achieved? What incentives could be offered.

Were the area to have ALL WOMEN LEADERS - be a starting point?!

lchic - 11:38pm Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4244 of 4250)

Sycophantic - Blair

Mr Blair faced further criticism from his European allies yesterday when the French president, Jacques Chirac, hinted that he found the British prime minister's support for the US on Iraq "sycophantic".

Mr Chirac used an interview in the New York Times to state that he found the Bush administration doctrine of pre-emptive military action in its fight against terrorism "extraordinarily dangerous" and to stress that France would never act as a lackey for America.

"In life, you know, one must not confuse friends with sycophants... It's better to have only a few friends than to have a lot of sycophants. And I'm telling you that France considers itself one of the friends of the Americans, not necessarily one of its sycophants," he said.

He went on to emphasise that Mr Blair was isolating himself by aligning Britain so firmly with America.

"It's not Schröder and I on one side, and Bush and Blair on the other; it's Bush and Blair on one side and all the others on the other side," he said.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,789151,00.html

lchic - 11:54pm Sep 9, 2002 EST (# 4245 of 4250)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/

lchic - 05:54am Sep 10, 2002 EST (# 4246 of 4250)

American Media - napped - after the fall of the berlin wall ... so says David Halberstram .. they withdrew foreign correspondents and concentrated on domestic trivia. America had been 'out' in the world since the end of WWI ... on Sept11 the world came 'home'. (www.abc.net.au/7.30 Tues)

( THE MAKING OF A QUAGMIRE by David Halberstram (Ballantine Books, New York)

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lchic - 05:57am Sep 10, 2002 EST (# 4247 of 4250)

see tues http://abc.net.au/7.30/

lchic - 06:00am Sep 10, 2002 EST (# 4248 of 4250)

http://www.888webtoday.com/

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