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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
- 10:30am Nov 5, 2002 EST (#
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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.
Maybe with modifications.
When the NK's, to a degree, tried to "come in through the
New York Times" they were following advice that a close
associate of Kissinger, and a friend-boss-mentor of mine gave
me after quite a lot of careful thought. That
friend-boss-mentor was Bill Casey.
The reason was that the NYT was complicated enough
and well enough connected to have a chance to come up
with something workable - with logical reserves - up front and
back channel - enought that both understanding and closure
might be possible.
If I hadn't drawn George Johnson as my contact -if it
had been somebody with better judgement - it might have worked
like a charm.
The analogies in the NK mess aren't perfect - but they seem
to me to be reasonable.
Not that I think the TIMES could or should negotiate with
the NKs alone. That would be unstable, if anybody with real
power wanted it to be unstable. That means it would be
unstable.
This would be stable, and permit a resolution that was
stable:
There should be a detailed discussion, along
the lines of the discussion lchic and I described in
"Anything on Anyting" rshow55
10/30/02 11:34am - - using the internet, and with some
assistance from several other journalistic organizations,
from several other countries - and with enough private
funding (from sources with lines to the administration) - so
that the complications, backgrounds and facts were
clear - at the various levels that would matter to
the people involved.
If that were added to other negotiation lines (not
substituted -- added ) - it seems to me likely that
something like the "Perry plan" might actually have
enough backup, and feedback, to work this time.
manjumicha
- 11:10am Nov 5, 2002 EST (#
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Perry plan worked.....until rummy and chenny and wolfy
vetoed it...and had boy george parrot it out in public...:-)
rshow55
- 11:46am Nov 5, 2002 EST (#
5474 of 5478)
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.
Maybe so . . but stability is an issue - and with the world
as dangerous and muddled as it is -- we could use solutions
that work better in practice than the Perry plan
"worked".
I'm off for a while. Gotta vote.
After the election, whatever happens - some kinds of
negotiations will be logically simpler than they are just now.
lunarchick
- 12:31pm Nov 5, 2002 EST (#
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Why denial of social history in above posts wrt
1. reprisals of allied armies against women - Germany
1945
Museum of Hiram: Library: CIA Bibliography
http://www.hiram.ws/library/ciaBibliography.html
73.
Veil: the Secret Wars of the CIA / Bob Woodward Simon and
Schuster (c) 1987
543 total pages, 485 pages text, 2 page
Central American Covert-Action Chronology, 3 pages
acknowledgments, 30 page index, 16 pages photographs
Focusing on the tenure of Director of Central
Intelligence William J. Casey, 28 January, 1981 thru 29
January 1987
from
William Casey
http://www.rense.com/general31/scont.htm
William
Casey was CIA Director during the Reagan/Bush
Administration. He died 2 days before he was to testify
about his and others' involvement in the Iran/Contra
scandal.
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