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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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rshow55 - 10:19am Sep 14, 2002 EST (# 4309 of 4309)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

I wish people in power would talk to me, and I could have some resources to gather data - in a discussion about end games. Just a dream, I fear. But it seems to me that a lot of lives, many of them American, might be saved, and a lot of agony and terror prevented if that happened.

I've been "going through channels" (my promise to Bill Casey, in the case I've faced, was that I'd "come in through The New York Times " ) - - and working actively at the business, for years now. In many ways - and I don't think they've been accidental ways -- this thread has been a very long debriefing. As events have unfolded, I've debriefed more and more - - always asking, before I went deeper into things I wanted to communicate to the government - - whether there was another way -- whether the disclosure was done on terms that Casey would have approved of. I'm facing some more decisions of that kind now.

In some ways, it seems to me that the administration is trying hard, and doing some things very well. In some other key ways -- I'm concerned -- and not alone. Perhaps this "virtual debriefing" is the best that can be done.

If it is, it says some things about the inflexibilities of AMERICAN arrangements that bear remembering when we ask other nations to make accomodations that look not only reasonable, but simple, to us.

Maybe there are things they aren't doing because they simply can't.

If so, maybe we should look about for other ways of doing the necessary -- ways that can work.

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