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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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lchic - 06:55am Jan 16, 2003 EST (# 7701 of 7711)
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Way back (above) i said that the geographic areas that included Palestine & Israel should be thought of in terms of ONE economic zone.

Friedman's latest op-ed ends by saying that there will be more (Arab)Palestinians than (Arab)Jews in that zone at the end of a decade.

So why isn't the area thought of as ONE-ZONE when time will sweep away the current dominant power.

lchic - 06:59am Jan 16, 2003 EST (# 7702 of 7711)
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Friedman-TheNewMath

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/15/opinion/15FRIE.html

lchic - 07:08am Jan 16, 2003 EST (# 7703 of 7711)
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Heard in passing ... that the MastersOfTerror in Sri Lanka ... took their skills into the Philapines .... took their skills into Indonesia .... took their skills back and forth up the Allah-Axis .... and to TwinTowers ...

Shows the NEED for a STRONG United Nations that can move in to work for peace in war-type disputes .... an advantage being fewer people will specialise in 'learning ways to kill, to maim, to be sensless - yet think of themselves as carrying out an important service' The Sri Lanka matter was rife in the Seventies --- 40 years of unnecessary HELL.

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"" Sri Lanka's Government and Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to share power in a federal system, to end 19 years of civil war on the island.

The Norwegian Government, which is mediating in the talks, said the two sides had agreed on "internal self-determination based on a federal model within a united Sri Lanka".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2544553.stm

lchic - 07:11am Jan 16, 2003 EST (# 7704 of 7711)
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"" Three Philippine soldiers have been killed and six others wounded in a clash with Abu Sayyaf rebels in the south of the country, military officials have said.

The three-hour battle broke out on Jolo island when troops encountered about 200 guerrillas near Patikul town, 960 kilometres (600 miles) south of Manila.""

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2664203.stm

lchic - 07:32am Jan 16, 2003 EST (# 7705 of 7711)
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George Johnson - why does he bother?

Note the moniker | manjumicha1 | is most probably Johnson 'the poster' - seach shows it occurs only in yesterday's discussion - no where else.

Begs the question was the previous manj also he?

Raises the point - is 'he' charged with appearing under various monikers to push the Bush-viewpoint, to muddle the board, to be a non-contributing poster.

World Posters find it rather pathetic on the USA's part that USA-Government propaganda Hacks 'pop' into/onto talk-threads averting discussion.

It's the same on this board - 'the poster' most often has 'nothing' contributory to put on the board. See 'the poster's' yesterday moniker parade.

commondata - 08:11am Jan 16, 2003 EST (# 7706 of 7711)

Here's my pidgeon-holing, for what it's worth:

Manjumicha - nice chap, a true cynic - pops up occasionally with good missile defense news and always sounds slightly dejected.

Kalter, Gisterme, Mazza - absolutely typical of the [religious] right in the US - passionate, patriotic, wrong - Gisterme's the smartest.

Bbbbuck - a kid with nothing to say, occasionally entertaining, likes a laugh.

Almarst - sick to the back teeth with US militarist hypocrisy. Me too.

Rshow - madman or genius - that's always a grey area - but some of his work has been brilliant and always fascinating.

Lchic - rshow's right hand enigma - with a limitless supply of interesting thoughts and links.

I never did find out about the George Johnson story - what's the deal?

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