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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 - 09:57pm Aug 23, 2001 EST (#8075 of 8103)
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Do it once do it right - relates to process. If all the truth's/facts aren't on the table, then doing it once, and doing it right won't happen.

Can negotiated peace be done once - done right?

rshowalter - 10:13pm Aug 23, 2001 EST (#8076 of 8103)
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"Can negotiated peace be done once - done right?"

At the level of exemplars, on the primal things involving nuclear weapons and controls, that will preserve the world -- I think the answer is yes.

But only if, when the stakes are high enough, finding the empirical truth, on key questions of fact , is morally forcing.

That puts pressures on journalism , world wide, that need to be adressed.

It shouldn't be beyond the wit of man to find ways to keep the world from being reduced to a charred ball, containing no life, but only rotting unburied corpses.

That ought not to be beyond us.

The risks of world destruction, are very real.

lunarchick - 01:05am Aug 24, 2001 EST (#8077 of 8103)
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stephennnn - 03:33am Aug 24, 2001 EST (#8078 of 8103)

I imagine that if I were sitting amongst those students listening to "W" trash our treaty with Russia in order to justify a mad dash towards turning space into a battleground, I too would have had a quizical look on my face. I could only wonder with despair, where did this guy come from?

jose_carlos - 08:14am Aug 24, 2001 EST (#8079 of 8103)

Channey and his President have only begun to take care of their own. The richer will get very much richer under this administration, and one can bet that the rest of America (the middle, working and poor classes) will not. Energy and Defense contractors will do very well....

lunarchick - 08:42am Aug 24, 2001 EST (#8080 of 8103)
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.... no conflict of interest re Carlyle ... well if there was ... surely the 'Hill' would set up a committee of inquiry - wouldn't they ?

galtreuter - 08:48am Aug 24, 2001 EST (#8081 of 8103)

This is insane. I will grant that a defense against the so-called rogue states is desireable - on the assumption that they are indeed nuclear-capable; but that's a broad assumption. This nation, the world in fact, has spent decades living in fear that "the bad guys" would initiate armageddon. Just when we can begin to relax a little, Jeb's brother decides that he'd like us to be afraid of him! He stands in front of school children like we once were and begins a duck-and-cover speech? The only difference is the kids don't have to fear the Russians, they need to be afraid that W will push the button.

It's like a bad superhero cartoon show. Robo-Veep Cheney chanting electronically that we must "Crush, Kill, Destroy" the Russians, and GWB chortling like the Joker.

George Bush's attempt to abrogate the existing ABM treaty unilaterally ought to be grounds for impeachment. He may have stolen the office, but that doesn't mean we can't take it back before it's too late.

lunarchick - 08:51am Aug 24, 2001 EST (#8082 of 8103)
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How much are American defence secrets worth? $au14billion. How do we know? It runs like this.

The Australian Prime Minister cowtows to Australian Business Man 'Kerry Packer' who takes some telecommunications from the national carrier calls it Optus. Optus he then sells on to UK Cable and Wireless ... who now looking at their bottom line and books want to off-load optus to .... Singtel. That's Singapore. So for $au14Billions Singapore are ready to take Optus .. along with all the American-Australian defence secrets transmitted via the Optus satellite.

So, unless the USA comes up with about $7billion us and buys from CableWireless ... the done deal is done.

If America were concerned re their 'defense' secrets ... together with the fact that America is about to use Australia as the Pacific base .. pulling some military out of Japan/Korea/Taiwan and placing them Down Under ... one would think they'd think this through.

Wonder haow much Singapore - it is the government - will make from buying this Aussie communications set-up and selling on the sensitive data to ... let's say China ?

noshorning - 08:56am Aug 24, 2001 EST (#8083 of 8103)

galtreuter: Thank you! I seriously think that we should impeach him. Compare what Bush has done and what Clinton did that he almost got impeached for. I´m serious we have to do something before it´s too late. He has already done to much damage these months he has been in the white house. How can we just sit and look on? There must be something we can do!

scooke - 09:00am Aug 24, 2001 EST (#8084 of 8103)

Congratulation to the Republican Party, firstly on they idiot of a leader, secondly on their determined effort to destroy the planet if not through bombs and war then through environmental damage, who's lining your pockets georgy boy!!!

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