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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 - 11:57am Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8781 of 8796)
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Seems the USA will have to fund rebuilding, replacing airplanes, additionally the cost of helping the injured back to functionality.

[No reports of chemicals - thankfully]

lunarchick - 12:02pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8782 of 8796)
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Says there's a move to get the President back to the Whitehouse - to show that he's ON THE JOB ... Symbolic Reason to get the President back is to say to attackers - they haven't shut down the USA government ... the oval office, the desk, the flag ...

Wouldn't it be better to send Bwsh to an unkown Studio?

lunarchick - 12:04pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8783 of 8796)
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Makes one think how terrible something like the firestorm bombing of Dresden WWII must have been - where there was no escape.

lunarchick - 12:06pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8784 of 8796)
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Secretary Powell has spoken of the 'Terrible Tragedy' -

Here we go again - the USA journalists are theatre critiquing Powell re his demeanor ... why do they do this??

lunarchick - 12:16pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8785 of 8796)
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Terrible events in the USA. War is terrible where everit happens.

Two Australians (on exchange) were in the Pentagon - unaccounted for when plane hit. Tourists and Tower dweller Australians. Comes down to individuals, to families, to communities .. re waste of life, injuries and losses.

lunarchick - 12:27pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8786 of 8796)
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Nite

lunarchick - 12:28pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8787 of 8796)
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"We want to tell the American Children that Afghanistan feels your pain" says Talibhan Muller.

These are the guys who shoot women in the head as a public stadium event, mass kill the non-Talibans, prohibit women from earning money to feed their childen - who starve and die.

Seems the Talibhan don't want the USA thinking they were involved - re retaliation.

rshowalter - 12:59pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8788 of 8796)
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MD8217 rshowalter 8/28/01 9:34pm

People need to exercise judgement (and that includes a willingness to doubt) in senses that I feel were eloquently explained in a sermon that I've posted here a number of times. http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/sermon.html .

The point is made in the whole 20 minute sermon, and the sermon is largely secular after the first 9 minutes. The key point about judgement -- and that means judgement enough to check things, and make sure that we're right about what matters, is made especially in the last minute of the sermon, after minute 19.

When the consequences matter, technical answers matter. Right answers about the behavior of people and groups matter. Checking matters. A willingness to doubt pat answers, and make sure matters.

Things are not only dangerous, they are complicated.

. . . "What would constitute the end of the world FOR YOU? "

It may be a good day to think about that.

lunarchick - 04:25pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8789 of 8796)
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Knowing nothing of the WTbuilding, i didn't realise the scale of the building, size of plane .. when seening televised footage .. initally i was thinking the plane was just a light aircraft.

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There is no such thing as 'security' - as has been shown.

It's just sad that so many countries in the world didn't make the Twentieth Century wrt their development - and are a mess.

.......

Seems an Aussie company 'managed' the world trade buildings - and will probably fold.

lunarchick - 04:32pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8790 of 8796)
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The apocalyptic scenes in the US left the world financial markets in disarray, and the outlook for the already-fragile world economy substantially worsened.

"Economies don't do well when things like this happen," said the London-based strategist. "Consumers, investors, everybody is stunned and there will be a halt in global growth, " he added. see

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