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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
- 08:19pm Sep 23, 2002 EST (#
4495 of 4505) 
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.
lchic: October 5- 2000 -- Suggests that people do not have
full knowledge of fact and implications. Suggests that peace
foundations haven't marketed the 'message', haven't positioned
it for distain and the question is why?
America isn't willing to pay it's dues the the United
Nations to enable function, and yet spends $25Billion a year
maintaining it's worthless nuclear arsnal.
Were $1billion allocated to 25 world places of need it
would do much to raise the quality of life of deserving
people.
* * * * *
One thing is clear now. Americans are very afraid of
weapons of mass destruction - especially nuclear weapons - and
are willing to support a great deal to protect themselves from
even relatively small - temporally distant - and indefinite
risks of their use.
That's new, since September 11th, 2001.
Two years ago, the risks weren't discussable.
The ease with which the signatories were "swept aside" at
that time is notable.
This thread has worked to develop new approaches to
" connecting the dots" in space and time -- so that things can
be seen and understood, and attended to, that have been too
easy to just sweep aside before.
lchic
- 09:05pm Sep 23, 2002 EST (#
4496 of 4505)
If 'full information' is having all the dots, and if
democracy is about 'full information' ... then the question is
?
_____________________________________________ ?
So USA and UK (who keep 'dots' from their own people, and
tell their people "Don't dare touch 'those' dots", "those
neither - they're nuclear dots", "nor those they're secret
dots"), are set to go into Iraq so that the people of Iraq can
'have all their dots' ....
Understanding all this gets to be quite a struggle!
lchic
- 06:02am Sep 24, 2002 EST (#
4497 of 4505)
Gore Calls Bush's Policy a Failure on Several Fronts
In
one of his strongest assessments of Mr. Bush, Mr. Gore said
the administration had wasted an opportunity to rally
international support after the attacks. He cited new
instances of anti-Americanism even among traditional allies of
the United States, including in this week's national elections
in Germany.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/politics/24GORE.html
In the end, 19th-century imperialism was a diversion. It's
hard not to suspect that the Bush doctrine is also a diversion
— a diversion from the real issues of dysfunctional security
agencies, a sinking economy, a devastated budget and a
tattered relationship with our allies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/opinion/24KRUG.html
[
lchic : a true Empire would increase the prosperity and
standards of all - wouldn't it? ]
Iraq also has a 95 percent literacy rate and a secular
middle class .... The most ticklish challenge ahead is not
overthrowing Saddam but managing the resulting upheaval for a
decade afterward.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/opinion/24KRIS.html
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lchic : how does the Iraq literacy rate cp to USA? ]
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