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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 - 06:29am Jul 3, 2001 EST (#6460 of 6463)
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rshowalter - 06:40am Jul 3, 2001 EST (#6461 of 6463)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

But there ARE some essentials that have to be made clear -- to many minds.

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It seems to me that Condoleezza Rice, Stephen J. Hadley, and some other deeply (but in decisive ways, narrowly) educated people, are getting grossly bad advice, both on matters of technical fact, and on matters of possible negotiation with other countries. And they are misinforming the President of the United States and members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives . Perhaps they are misinforming these important, powerful people because they are being encouraged to do so in ways that are partly corrupt. But perhaps they are doing so in good faith, as they understand it, because they have made some key assumptions, that may seem axiomatic to them, that happen to be wrong and misleading.

Things need to be checked. It can happen a step at at time, and to some degree, it is happening.

rshowalter - 06:45am Jul 3, 2001 EST (#6462 of 6463)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

This can't be what Rice and Hadley have in mind. Or is it?

Putin fires arms race warning http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,509733,00.html

" The Bush administration's decision to press ahead with a new missile defence system could trigger a new arms race, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, warned in interviews published in the US yesterday.

Julian Borger in Washington Wednesday June 20, 2001 The Guardian

Talk: is the cold war back? http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee84afd/0

Special report: Russia

rshowalter - 07:01am Jul 3, 2001 EST (#6463 of 6463)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD6058 rshowalter 6/26/01 7:23am ....

I'd like to post links to a Guardian thread where I've said many of the most important things I'd like people to know. Psychwarfare, Casablanca -- and terror http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/0

including the key story, #13.. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?7@@.ee7a163/13 ... to #23.. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?7@@.ee7a163/24

note #26 ... http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/25

To see many references to this that thread, and to the movie Casablanca , search "casablanca" for this thread. Here are some of them:

MD3044 rshowalter 5/2/01 5:31pm .... MD3045 rshowalter 5/2/01 5:31pm
MD3046 rshowalter 5/2/01 5:32pm

MD3831 rshowalter 5/14/01 12:09pm .... MD3523 rshowalter 5/8/01 4:12pm

Summaries and links to this Missile Defense thread are set out from #153 in http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/159
MD4778 rshowalter 6/11/01 7:31pm

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