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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

lunarchick - 10:50pm Mar 12, 2001 EST (#966 of 968)
lunarchick@www.com

Noted that Russia is selling conventional ARMS to Iran .. when they ought not to be .. justifed the deal to themselves.

Pity the goods changing hands are ugly little machines to load and click and kill.

A more Beautiful, and longterm more benifical exchange would have been one related to knowledge and learning and human growth towards enhanced statehood.

rshowalter - 07:40am Mar 13, 2001 EST (#967 of 968)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Dawn, I share your long terms goals, but for just now, I think you're holding Russia to an impossibly high and unrealistic standard, given the actions of the United States, as Russia, from a Russian point of view, has to understand them.

rshowalter - 07:45am Mar 13, 2001 EST (#968 of 968)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I've done a condensed but still extensive summary of my involvement in this thread, with Dawn Riley, since rshowalt 9/25/00 7:32am in Psychwarfare, Casablanca -- and terror ......Guardian Talk International

It is 12 postings.

As of today, it closes:

. "Historically, presidents left a power vacuum in American nuclear policy, and people like LeMay and his proteges, people in the CIA, and some contractors, filled it. And now, that conspiracy, long past any legitimate usefulness, and long since financially corrupt, is menacing the peace of the whole world, and imposing huge costs on innocent people.

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