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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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gisterme
- 04:10pm Oct 15, 2002 EST (#
4906 of 4916)
gisterme
10/15/02 4:00pm ...continued
"...- And Washington would pick up where Clinton left
off, devoting serious political muscle to the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Genuine movement in that
area would instantly rob the Islamists of one of their
greatest recruiting pitches..."
Yeah, a whole lot of problems in Israel/palestine sure did
get solved during the Clinton administration didn't they? I'm
just having a little trouble recalling just which problems
those were that got solved. As I recall, the palestineans were
living quite peacefully with the Israelies when Mr. Clinton
took office weren't they?
I think that the "hear no evil, see no evil" policy of that
past administration is the reason we're at war now. That
policy emobldend creatures like Ben Laden to launch their
so-called jihad. In my view the current war is necesary to
unravel those naive policies.
There will never be peace in Israel/palestine so long as
there are folks fomenting jihad. That's because it serves the
purpose of jihad to keep that pot boiling.
Bloody men delight in spilling blood especially innocent
blood.
gisterme
- 04:15pm Oct 15, 2002 EST (#
4907 of 4916)
lchic
10/15/02 10:42am
"...- we are living – whether we know it or not – in a
terrifying new age..."
Gee, lchic. That hadn't even occured to me. Wow! I just
realized that maybe we call those bad guys terrorists
for just that reason! Could that be why we're currently
prosecuting a war on terror??? Thanks for the
enlightenment, lchic.
ericanderson108
- 05:26pm Oct 15, 2002 EST (#
4908 of 4916)
From http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2002/b10142002_bt520-02.html
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced today it has
successfully completed a flight test of the ground-based
midcourse defense (GMD) development program, intercepting an
intercontinental ballistic missile target. The test took place
over the central Pacific Ocean in the Western Test Range. A
modified Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile target
vehicle was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.,
at 10 p.m. EDT, and a prototype interceptor was launched 22
minutes later and 4,800 miles away from the Ronald Reagan
Missile Site Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall
Islands. The intercept took place approximately six minutes
after the interceptor was launched, at an altitude in excess
of 140 miles above the earth, and during the midcourse phase
of the target warhead's flight. This was the fifth successful
intercept--and the fourth consecutive--in seven flight tests
since October 1999 for the GMD program.
gisterme
- 05:30pm Oct 15, 2002 EST (#
4909 of 4916)
ericanderson108
10/15/02 5:26pm
"...This was the fifth successful intercept--and the
fourth consecutive--in seven flight tests since October 1999
for the GMD program..."
Hmmm. Looks like it's now five out of seven. Not bad for a
boondoggle, eh Robert?
Thanks for posting that Eric.
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