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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?

almarst-2001 - 12:08am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9235 of 9249)

The bloody revenge so many (most?) Americans are thinking of, no matter what it takes as a "colateral damage" (Orvell, where are you?) - that what is really a frightening fact. Exactly what I predicted analyzing the behavior and mentality of this society. This is a face of a "global moralist" invented the "humanitarian bombing" and punishing the other nations which do not reach the declared "humanitarian" and "democratic" standard of American "civilization".

Calls grow for reversal of US ban on assassinations after terrorist strikes - http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010917/world/afp/Calls_grow_for_reversal_of_US_ban_on_assassinations_after_terrorist_strikes.html

What a shame!

Italian defence minister: troops would not take part in any US retaliation; use of the term 'war' inappropriate... - http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010917/world/afp/Italian_defence_minister_rules_out_Italian_troop_role.html

Germany refuses to join in NATO military action... - http://www.paknews.com/main.php?id=6&date1=2001-09-16

lunarchick - 12:13am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9236 of 9249)
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Monday's Speech PM Australia will be posted.

almarst-2001 - 12:15am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9237 of 9249)

Justice Department to ask Congress for expanded powers: Detain non-US citizens, intercept telephone communications, trace laundered money... - http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010917/world/afp/Calls_grow_for_reversal_of_US_ban_on_assassinations_after_terrorist_strikes.html

lunarchick - 12:16am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9238 of 9249)
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35 countries had big civil population losses ... people and families are hurting globally. Those countries with a democratic civil structure aren't for blood letting .. they are for justice. The question is - who moderates the USA?

lunarchick - 12:23am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9239 of 9249)
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GI: showed one personality, then a second - more basic - less measured, above.

Money for radios sounds fine, but, is that for education or propaganda?

Money for the very basics of life, infrastructure, and survival are the real requirements. As i posted above .. take the value of a proposed MD onslaught and, rather than placing terror and fire from the night sky over the people ... use an equivalent amount to BUILD their societies.

Built societies become complex and interdependant. Built complex societies absorb people, offer them a livelyhood, enable them to decently support families ... and eventually strengthen people ... so they can look for truth and right-ness.

That any society be dominated by whacko extremists is a sign of ill health within it .. this applies equally to both Afghanistan and Middle East Countries in trauma .. as it does to America that persecutes people who ask that a focus on truth.

lunarchick - 12:29am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9240 of 9249)
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http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/parliament.htm

lunarchick - 12:35am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9241 of 9249)
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'Luck or fate might have put anyone of us there on that day' Kim BEASLEY

The same might be said wrt our being born into a rich or a poor economy.

lunarchick - 12:47am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9242 of 9249)
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Watching you watching me..

lunarchick - 12:52am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9243 of 9249)
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hypersonic aircraft - China

lunarchick - 12:55am Sep 17, 2001 EST (#9244 of 9249)
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Talibhan - pre Tragic Tuesday

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