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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 - 07:57am Jul 8, 2001 EST (#6760 of 6763)
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one of the Angels of Mercy!?

rshowalter - 08:17am Jul 8, 2001 EST (#6761 of 6763)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

In
MD6737 gisterme 7/7/01 3:50pm ...and .. MD6738 gisterme 7/7/01 3:59pm

gisterme admonishes me to check things --- and since that posting, I've been doing so, to some degree - and that will continue. What I'll show -- and with more checking, this can be shown beyond any shadow of a doubt -- for people with any sensible feel for the "miracles" that can be achieved-- is that the lasar based weapons, that the Bush administration has been risking so much of our safety for -- are total frauds --- or, if you wish to be more charitable there -- examples of group incompetence to execute a task -- and self deception carried to a point where justice would be a harsh judge indeed, on the people involved.

MD6613 rshowalter 7/4/01 11:46pm , which deals some with my background.

rshowalter - 09:43am Jul 8, 2001 EST (#6762 of 6763)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD6549 rshowalter 7/4/01 11:38am

With a format that permits complex discussion, between staffed organizations, there are new and hopeful possibilities. But we must be concerned with patterns of deception that have become ingrained.

MD5594 rshowalter 6/25/01 1:05pm

rshowalter - 09:59am Jul 8, 2001 EST (#6763 of 6763)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD5995 rshowalter 6/25/01 1:30pm .... MD5996 rshowalter 6/25/01 1:57pm

" Me, I don't know, but these things don't sound so easy. . . "

Indeed, the administration is expressing confidence that it can do jobs that are impossible.

We have alternatives that are attractive, but not pursued, because the Bush administration backs schemes that cannot stand up to competent crossexamination.
MD5997 rshowalter 6/25/01 2:02pm

We also have a knowlege base, extensive and deep, which tells us for sure that some things are not going to be doable in the foreseeable future. We can be sure that some of the miracles claimed by the military-industrial complex, especially on lasar missile defense, cannot be true.
MD5998 rshowalter 6/25/01 2:45pm

We can also be sure that patterns of decieving the Congress have been well established, for a very long time, and continue.
MD6000 smartalix 6/25/01 2:52pm ... MD6001 rshowalter 6/25/01 3:05pm

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