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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 - 01:23am Sep 10, 2001 EST (#8735 of 8742)
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Putin's comment re the King's advisors (prior to his trip to Finland) is interesting. I read it to mean that the Bush camp is in disarray.

As i've noted before the President of the USA is a phenomenon foisted on the people with the assistance of Big Business.

The team picked by the President have little to do with the people's wishes - in respect of their asendancy - they are plucked from the air by Him.

The way money is spent - for government is all about the redistribution of income - ought to be a matter in which 'people' have a say.

It's been noted that the Bwsh direction is mainly with respect to his Father's business interests - as per conflict of interest postings.

Colin Powell has been dismissed by Bwsh as being too liberal (so says the media chatter - Time Magazine) .. but rather than say he's liberal one might instead say that Powell has a set of people priorities that are outside the Bwsh agenda.

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Raises the question "What are the people priorities?" "What are their needs?"

Going back to the Maslow Pyramid .. people wish to be able to meet their basic wants and have spare left over for 'self actualisation' activities.
Where do 10,000 missiles on standby, at a cost of $30billion p.a., fit?

If government is about the redistribution of taxes, back to the people, to enhance the body of the people ... then one has to venture that the Bwsh-Click - that inner circle of the Administration - may be completely off track.

Is the media doing it's job by putting matters before the people, so that informed judgements can be made ?

lunarchick - 07:31am Sep 10, 2001 EST (#8736 of 8742)
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rshowalter - 12:51pm Sep 10, 2001 EST (#8737 of 8742)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

My wife just came back from a research trip to Mexico last night, we didn't get back from the airport until after midnight, and we had a lot to talk about, including nonjudgemental pieces such as William Cohen's recent OpEd piece, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/opinion/05COHE.html and some other things. So I was later than usual checking the board this morning.

When I did check, I was very glad to see two constructive posts from gisterme .

MD8731 gisterme 9/9/01 11:49pm ... MD8732 gisterme 9/10/01 12:11am

I was especially interested in this from MD8731:

But what is the relationship of personal belief to reality? Is the relationship causal? I'll bet that (at least in your own mind) you'd strongly argue against causality when it comes to the beliefs of religious folks, who may present an identical basis for their faith as you've presented above for yours. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

You're wrong. And you've read enough of this board to know it very well. I think religious causality makes a lot of sense, though I have no faith in my own infallibility, or anybody else's. Right now, I think that if God cares about mankind, he (Dawn might prefer "she") would want some things to stay ambiguous.

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