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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 - 09:37pm Nov 17, 2002 EST (# 5901 of 5908)
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.

almarst2002 11/17/02 9:30pm . . . Lchic and I have been doing our best - perhaps with a little effect . . . to provide some balancing controls. With some help on checking - very much in the interest of many nation states - more could be accomplished.

So has the Security Council - - and the United States' excessive power is being subjected (with the agreement of the US in some ways that are significant) to some real legal controls.

Given the negotiation with respect to Iraq - a reasonably clear case where there is an agreement to be enforced - - the United States is not excercising lawless power.

Some progress is being made - under some adverse conditions - and there is very good reason to expect that, with effort, all your reasonable concerns can be adressed.

As for me - I think the US has made a trillion dollar error - and needs to get some resources freed up - in ways entirely compatible with enhanced US security.

With some help and some luck - it may be possible to make that case.

rshow55 - 09:40pm Nov 17, 2002 EST (# 5902 of 5908)
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If Russia, for instance, continued to exercise, and increased - its international power as an increasingly competent, sophisticated world power - a lot of people, all over the world - would cheer her on.

Including some you might not expect at first. Maybe including Rice, and Sam Nunn.

By training - they believe in balances, too.

rshow55 - 10:00pm Nov 17, 2002 EST (# 5903 of 5908)
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Out.

Almarst , I'm honored to converse with you.

almarst2002 - 11:01pm Nov 17, 2002 EST (# 5904 of 5908)

... secret detention of a British-trained orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Amir Aziz. American investigators suspect he provided medical treatment to Bin Laden and al-Qa'ida members in Afghanistan before the attack on the World Trade Centre. - http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=352575

Who it was first who said that the "Ends justify the Means"?

kalter.rauch - 02:44am Nov 18, 2002 EST (# 5905 of 5908)
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mazza9 11/13/02 9:58am

Be kind to Robert...His fantasy is evident...

I'm sorry Lou, but I just CAN'T maintain the kind of equanimity you think he deserves. His polished intellectual dishonesty is TOO unbearable. It's one thing to indulge in utopian fantasies about diplomatic initiatives, but you can see from his "treatment" of even the crudest of EMP weapons that he is quite willing to risk national survival and the fate of millions on the gamble that, by smearing me as a "dishonest idiot", his sympathizers won't bother to examine the technology.

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