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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?

rshowalter - 09:04pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5597 of 5636)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

That might make the Swedes better negotiating mediators, -- not too sympathetic to the USA -- might be better for bridging differences.

Start badmouthing the USA, get the interest of the leader - - and maybe get something now locked down moving.

lunarchick - 09:04pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5598 of 5636)
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On Iran ... most Iranians one meets seem very reasonable sensible types .... not too keen on the psudo-religious-tyrants of repression who hold them to ransome within their own country. Regular people want to relax restrictive laws and move to C21 normality.

rshowalter - 09:04pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5599 of 5636)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

evil:
MD3946 rshowalter 5/15/01 7:23pm .... MD 3947 rshowalter 5/15/01 7:40pm

America can be very, very beautiful in many ways, but when its military policy or foriegn policy looks too much like Hitler's, that is ugly. We should fix it. Even assuming that was impossible during the Cold War, the Cold War is over, and we should fix it now.

If we did, and convinced Putin of that, then Missile Defense would be a minor issue, rather easily accomodated.

lunarchick - 09:06pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5600 of 5636)
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Expensive toys

rshowalter - 09:06pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5601 of 5636)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

lunarchick 6/20/01 9:04pm

Iranians don't look like suicide nuclear missile launchers to me.

Not like us, but not nearly unbalanced enough for that.

I don't see any other nation that unbalanced, either.

lunarchick - 09:08pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5602 of 5636)
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The Indian spokesperson on tv last night had the thought that 'were the money currently spent on MD put to a public good usage .. the world would be a better place'

lunarchick - 09:12pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5603 of 5636)
lunarchick@www.com

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/missiles/

rshowalter - 09:15pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5604 of 5636)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

lunarchick 6/20/01 9:08pm that indian spokesperson is right.

rshowalter - 09:17pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5605 of 5636)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Sampling.
MD5411 lunarchick 6/20/01 9:04pm . . MD5413 rshowalter 6/19/01 6:43am

MD5414 rshowalter 6/19/01 7:15am .. checking on a technical matter -- the defense we may not really need may not work, either.

gisterme - 09:19pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5606 of 5636)

rshowalter wrote: "...Now, of course I don't know who almarst is, but if you look at what he's written, he may be a fair analog of some patterns of Russian thought..."

Or not. The more I look at what she's written and compare that to what the Russians are saying and doing the more I doubt that almarst represents their mainstream thinking.

I haven't quite been ignoring almarst, Robert. Are you ignoring this earlier post?

gisterme 6/20/01 6:12pm

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