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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?
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lunarchick
- 12:21am Jul 30, 2001 EST (#7593
of 7605)
lunarchick@www.com
Listening to Cooke's 'Letter from America' Cooke noted that while
every Republican President comes out fighting from the right, then
moves to centre, Bwsh was right and still is right. He compared him
to Gerry Falwell. Said his
inaugural reception by the lefts-of-centre at Yale was the least
welcoming - even so he was maintaining 57% in the popularity stakes.
Said that when Bwsh spoke recently to Putin, B told P all about the
Nuclear Shield and got him on-side.* And also said that the Ru had
been working on such a shield for 9years.
RS on your mob you note: ' .... because there is
an error, in a computer algorithm that they use again and again,
that can and does generate explosive errors, under conditions that
matter, but which they are not checking.'
Which raises a point in my mind - while the USA is
too intransigent to check, to use maths that 'work' ... other
cultures may check, and may jettison the redundant.
Who knows, the Ru-mob may be further down the track regarding the
Shield than the USA ... and if anyone did consider Bwsh to be smart
... there's the smartness ... he's moving over to the Ru-mob who'll
get him what he wants - if they have it ... business for Carlye ..
for Dad ... for dollar churn .. for commissions .. for Dad et al.
Did i read Alistair Cooke's message, or read into it, ... leaving
the enigma Cooke to cook yet another instalment in his personal
chain-letter .. comparing 'the now' with 'the then' - that time of
simpler men.
That wasn't my take!
lunarchick
- 12:44am Jul 30, 2001 EST (#7594
of 7605)
lunarchick@www.com
rshowalt
7/29/01 10:29pm re .... ... believe strongly, therefore, that
the urgency of the Carnegie Commission's call to war prevention in
the 21st century is warranted ....
Doesn't this relate back to there being a global moral education
that sets a world standard regarding social responsibility with
pluraistic inclusion together with frameworks to control personal
greed and manipulation of others. Were people given a 'value' and
'place' in the global community (not restricted to a workplace
dollar value) then life might be given improved respect and regard.
rshowalt
- 06:59am Jul 30, 2001 EST (#7595
of 7605) 
Moral education, and a sense of HISTORY are vital - lest the
world become even worse than it is, but also so that we can regain
some hopes lost, and some decencies long discarded.
"Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight's new book
embraces the Wilsonian notion that American foreign policy must be
grounded on the bedrock of morality .... http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/books/review/29CHASET.html
McNamara and Blight are clearly, inescapably right that morality
must be involved in American foreign policy decisions. The chapter
in the TIMES linked above is very much worth reading, and especially
the numbers, numbing but, for sensible people, deeply moving, too,
emphasized by Dawn in http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/books/chapters/29-1stmcnam.html?pagewanted=4
But we need to know, and the world needs to know, something else
- - we need to know how ugly some of the "hidden things" of the Cold
War have been, done by the "moral" United States - - if that were
acknowledged, the McNamara-Blight suggestions could be much more
practical, and quickly.
For global moral education to work, some aspects of the United
States position and pschology that are massively hypocricritical and
anti-historical have to be adressed, and cleaned up.
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