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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 - 07:29am Jan 31, 2003 EST (# 8380 of 8383)
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.

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rshow55 - 08:40am Jan 31, 2003 EST (# 8381 of 8383)
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.

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almarst2002 - 06:15pm Jan 30, 2003 EST (# 8357 of 8380 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.k5bNaXmR1uN.95575@.f28e622/9883

8367 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.k5bNaXmR1uN.95575@.f28e622/9893 includes this, and begins a series of postings that I think staffs of nation states, and other interested parties, might be able to use.

Is gisterme a high officer in the Bush administration, or does gisterme have close connections to such an officer? I've assumed so. The government knows this answer. People at the NYT know whether or not they have assumed so, or known so. Legislators could probably know if they asked, and journalists could probably find out if they worked at it. . .. . . . By a reasonable "collection of dots" and "connection of dots," gisterme may reasonably be judged to have clear links, and high ones, with the Bush administration.

People and organizations can't communicate, cooperate, or make peace "in general" - - - it has to happen specifically. At a time when so much hinges on the thoughts, intentions, and beliefs of the Bush administration, I believe that these posts by gisterme are a valuable resource. Gisterme is, at a conservative evaluation, close to the Bush administration, and trusted.

Gisterme's concerned with the question "how does the US protect its interests - and make peace with the world?"

I believe that staffs of nation states, from all over the world, who care about an analogous question could benefit a great deal by attending to these postings. Here is the question:

" "How does my nation further its interests - and make peace with the United States?"

Gisterme and I have some disagreements - but it is clear that he cares about this question - and, within limits, is working hard to find answers that are, from the Bush's point of view - orderly, symettrical, and harmonious. If other nations understood gisterme better, and understood themselves better, we'd have a better chance.

If staffs in other nation states worked as hard as gisterme works - and communicated - a lot of problems could be solved.

This thread is intended as a prototype showing what - with proper resources - could be done to make the world more orderly, more symmetrical, more harmonious in human terms.

Gisterme thinks I'm often muddled, unclear - and maybe not honest in ways that matter to him. People think and feel differently. But I'll try to post today, in ways that might be useful to make peace a more practical proposition. Gisterme made a suggestion that we go back and consider missile defense in great detail -and I disagreed with some of the things he said, but would like that idea. It would have to be staffed. And I'd have to have my security problems actually solved in the ways that actually matter in the United States of America.

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almarst2002 - 06:15pm Jan 30, 2003 EST (# 8357 of 8380 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.k5bNaXmR1uN.95575@.f28e622/9883

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