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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 Nov 9, 2002 EST (# 5565 of 5574)
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.

Section on Empathy begins here (16 related posts) :
5086 lchic 10/20/02 7:50pm

empathy and diplomacy:
5103 lchic 10/20/02 11:51pm

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We need to have force available, ask for change, and respond so that it has a chance to occur.

We're on the road to that - if we, and the Iraqis, working together, don't make a mess of it. That could easily happen. Hope it doesn't.

out.

almarst2002 - 02:00am Nov 10, 2002 EST (# 5566 of 5574)

Star Wars spending spree - http://www.msnbc.com/news/832484.asp?0dm=C13QO&cp1=1

almarst2002 - 02:03am Nov 10, 2002 EST (# 5567 of 5574)

" The modern Senate is a rubber stamp on foreign-policy issues, regardless of whether the stamp is held by Democrats or Republicans." - http://www.msnbc.com/news/830896.asp?0dm=C1AQO

lunarchick - 02:44am Nov 10, 2002 EST (# 5568 of 5574)

What does the USA Parliament actually do ...
(a question previously voiced on this board) ...

they aquiesce
subject themselves
fail to set up Health&Safety legislation to protect from Asbestos
are emasculated
yet well compensated
Wisdom may come with age,
yet health, vigor and vitality
diminish with the same ....
USA Parliament is a pasture - out to grass- for the way-past retired ... who don't need income!
Why are they there?

lunarchick - 02:50am Nov 10, 2002 EST (# 5569 of 5574)

USA Parliament don't have detailed breakdowns of proposed expenditure - StarWarsLINK above

""Congress has approved this $7.4 billion, for what is now simply called the Missile Defense Agency, without knowing where the money is going.

newskillz - 06:03am Nov 10, 2002 EST (# 5570 of 5574)

Possible Solution http://wolf.webcruiser.org/index.php?ref=152916

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