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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 - 05:28pm Feb 23, 2003 EST (# 9243 of 9249)
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.

I told gisterme last night that I'd annotate his important 9184 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.XbVRafgx3f0.2196346@.f28e622/10710 , and I won't get to it today. I have to leave for a social engagement now. I will get to it tomorrow. The subject of 9184 talks of life and death decisions - and ones I hope will be made carefully. I think gisterme , however well intentioned, could be wrong, and could be missing some chances.

Repression - and unconscious things, active and at some level known - but unconscious or denied, are a source of problems.

Another source of problems, that I think matters in the Iraq matter - with our problems with radical Islam, and with our problems with North Korea, involve problems of paradigm conflict including automatic and unconscoius perceptual processing.

A classic experiment is described in THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS 2nd Ed. by Thomas S. Kuhn, , at the end of Chapter 6 “Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries”

313 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@138.SCCbcNceBno^1@.ee7726f/367

314 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@138.SCCbcNceBno^1@.ee7726f/368

Some other references to paradigm conflict problems - which are a barrier to peaceful resolution - are set out in 116 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@201.dgfSa6OVF8o^287330@.f28e622/137

I believe that there is a good chance that the Bush administration can get good answers to the problems set out in

Wizard's Chess http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/05/opinion/05SUN1.html

America now faces a national security challenge of extraordinary complexity. Washington must simultaneously cope with three separate and potentially grave threats — from Iraq, from North Korea and from the threat of reconstituted international terrorist networks.

To do that, we have to do a better job of "connecting the dots" than we've done - and insist that others do so as well, in ways that work. I think that's possible.

out.

robkettenburg03 - 10:25pm Feb 23, 2003 EST (# 9244 of 9249)

200,000 soldiers got Gulf War Syndrome in our last war with Iraq - U.S. NOT READY FOR ANOTHER ATTACK!

http://www.military.com/NewsContent?file=FL_attack_021903

My home page - http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/robkettenburg

lchic - 06:52am Feb 24, 2003 EST (# 9245 of 9249)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

i% of mid-west americans have taken a righteous Jihad stance for war

these guys make it up as they go along

Malaysian PM can't be taken seriously or as a figure of authority when he terrorised his own deputy!

lchic - 06:58am Feb 24, 2003 EST (# 9246 of 9249)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/

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