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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 - 05:36pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8464 of 8475)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

lunarchick 9/4/01 5:26pm

Man's Inhumanity to Man . . . http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b085/0

We need to learn to do better. And when we do fight -- keep things more proportionate -- and refrain from slaughering noncombatants, as a ragged minimum.

That means getting rid of nukes - - and avoiding bombing.

lunarchick - 05:36pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8465 of 8475)
lunarchick@www.com

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rshowalter - 05:41pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8466 of 8475)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Years ago, as a kiddie, I did a C&J with almost as much as Valentina Popova, and almost burst with pride.

Ladies are gettin' tough.

rshowalter - 05:47pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8467 of 8475)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Some "poker playing" that shouldn't happen again. ... MD3375 gisterme 5/6/01 5:05pm

Time to "step away from the table." ... MD3376 rshowalter 5/6/01 5:21pm

rshowalter - 05:52pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8468 of 8475)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Things are opening up!

China Reportedly to Give Access to News Corp. and AOL By JAMES KYNGE and ROBERT THOMSON, FT.COM http://www.nytimes.com/financialtimes/business/04FT-CHINA.html

rshowalter - 07:31pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8469 of 8475)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

To ask nation states to stop treatening each other is a completely unrealistic and dangerous idea. That's what military forces largely do, and have to do.

We need force balances where threats, and logic sequences under threat are STABLE , and involve SURVIVABLE COSTS.

For this reason, we need to get rid of nuclear weapons, that are prone to instability and involve catastrophic losses.

MD697 rshowalter 2/17/01 1:59pm ... MD698 rshowalter 2/17/01 2:00pm
MD699 rshowalter 2/17/01 2:05pm ... MD700 rshowalter 2/17/01 2:07pm

lunarchick - 08:17pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8470 of 8475)
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Rupert Murdock's secret weapon re China has to be his wife who's a go_getter and understands Chinese negotiation http://www.gznet.edu.cn/WWW/scn/guangdong/e_gd.html http://www.gznet.edu.cn/WWW/scn/guangdong/e_gd.html http://www.att.com/press/0994/940901.nsa.html http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/suscoasts/krismin.html read to end.

lunarchick - 08:19pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8471 of 8475)
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Nothing much on your Emperor in the press today Showalter ... not a problem regarding the altogther is there?

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