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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 - 07:54am Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8924 of 8934)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I'm for eradicating terrorism, and not averse to the use of some violence in the process of doing it. I think the terrorists who attacked America should be punished, and I wouldn't mind it being memorable, wrenching punishment, ugly in proportion to what they did.

But in the world as it is, we need to deal with arguments about our own behavior, too.
MD8892 rshowalter 9/12/01 7:40pm

lunarchick - 08:05am Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8925 of 8934)
lunarchick@www.com

This 1933 classic came out at the same time the dangers of asbestos were understood.

This week she, she, she, she, she, she, she fell, fell, fell, fell, fell, fell, fell from the scraper ... then fell the scraper ... and the cloud contained asbestos .. and back to quality ... air quality ... lungs ... and lack of masks in NY.

rshowalter - 08:10am Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8926 of 8934)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I have a hard day ahead of me, trying to say the bad things about gisterme that she's asked me to say, and trying to do so with balance.

What a chore! Condoleezza Rice sure is a complicated person. Beautiful, intelligent, accomplished, sparkling, sexy . .

A lot like gisterme , in those ways and others, it seems to me.

lunarchick - 08:21am Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8927 of 8934)
lunarchick@www.com

Sounds as if you'll be running the gauntlet from tarot ... to ... uhhmmmmmm ..... tea leaves

lunarchick - 08:27am Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8928 of 8934)
lunarchick@www.com

Watch out for airplanes and towers in those leaves!

~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest

rshowalter - 08:31am Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8929 of 8934)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

These faces, among so many, are worth looking at . . they give one pause -- about abstractions that can be too simple. http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,551227,00.html

rshowalter - 08:36am Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8930 of 8934)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Death Be Not Proud
by John Donne

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee74d94/3521

almarst-2001 - 11:56am Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8931 of 8934)

No sane person can justify this act of terror against innocent civilians in US.

And, as Armel pointed, the US record mau not be worst then others.

Except for the following:

1. The US had the least of all other nations to commit any atrocities it commited.

2. The US is the most powerful nation in order of magnitudes greater then its victims.

3. Due to its power, it can and must follow a different standards of behavier.

rshowalter - 12:07pm Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8932 of 8934)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

almarst , for the US to follow a different, higher standard of behavior (and I agree that it should) -- people with influence, from other nations, have to ask for it.

And also show responsibility themselves. As is, it seems to me, happening impressively and increasingly.

rshowalter - 12:16pm Sep 13, 2001 EST (#8933 of 8934)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Now is a time for mourning, but also for an increased seriousness that can make a lot of things better.

We cannot possibly, and should not "all become alike" -- or all think alike. But on issues important to peace, decency, and human cooperation, we need to have "islands of fact" where we are "reading from the same page" -- and can cooperate.

We need to find "win-win" situations in many places where they've been classified out of existence. You and I, who feel differently about many things, and disagree about many things, have been working for that.

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