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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 - 04:25pm Sep 19, 2002 EST (# 4425 of 4426)
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.

almarst - - who can know what is on such a great man's mind? Still, I've appreciated the many references you've posted from a Russian perspective, and the many fine arguments, since before the time of "Muddle in Moscow" http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=533129

1665 rshow55 4/22/02 4:22pm

Perhaps we've done a "dry run" that has generated some ideas that powers greater than ourselves have sometimes read.

rshow55 - 04:28pm Sep 19, 2002 EST (# 4426 of 4426)
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.

The analogies between Bush and Hitler are many and disquieting - - and we should remember that Hitler went unchecked in many senses - including the informational sense.

We shouldn't take Bush at his word. American voters shouldn't do so, and other nations shouldn't do so, either. People who wonder why should read Krugman's pieces (search "Krugman", this thread.) Statements from the Bush administration should be checked.

I hope the Germans continue to show leadership here. They have a right to ask for, insist on, moral and honest conduct from the United States - just as we insist on moral and honest conduct from them. There isn't any reason to trust Saddam, either. His administration should be checked, too.

I think Arming the Arms Inspectors by JESSICA T. MATHEWS and CHARLES G. BOYD http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/opinion/19MATH.html is excellent. MD4000 rshow55 9/19/02 8:56am

Some basic things about the United States - now and for a long time past, should be checked, too.

I write this thread on the presumption (perhaps, according to the fiction) that staffed organizations may look at it - or at other postings set out according to a similar pattern. I think some citations from this thread in May 2001 fit here --
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