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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 - 05:52pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9489 of 9524)
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CONDI - giving a news conference http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/

lunarchick - 05:57pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9490 of 9524)
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Bwsh meets Megawati - 1/4 billion muslim - leader, today.

applez101 - 05:59pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9491 of 9524)

Reading an op-ed piece in the Wash Post titled 'Surgical Strike vs. Mass Strike' or somesuch, a thought occurred to me.

I support wholeheartedly the most surgical strike in our arsenal: arrest.

lunarchick - 06:02pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9492 of 9524)
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gouging an eye or pulling a tooth ?

lunarchick - 06:05pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9493 of 9524)
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Heard the whole terrorist cell thing described as 'cockroaches in a building' .. remove one .. and a thousand the same still abound.

Doesn't it come back to truth and logical thinking - in the heads of individual world citizens. Restore real brain, remove prosthetic.

lunarchick - 06:09pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9494 of 9524)
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On a positive note ... America turned up a 70's terrorist recently .. he'd resumed a normal head, lived in the suburbs, with family, worked a job of community value and standing.

Seems 'terrorists' are just normal people who've gone down a oneway track fanned by a fanatic belief systems. But really they want things to be good and conform .. so how can all the cockroach brains be re-aligned?

rshowalter - 08:13pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9495 of 9524)
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A key thing is acknowledging the past -- and sometimes it would make sense for there to be some apologies, both ways.

rshowalter - 08:33pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9496 of 9524)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD2224 rshowalter 4/13/01 6:16pm ...starts:
I thought Thomasl L. Friedman's One Nation, 3 Lessons http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/13/opinion/13FRIE.html was a fine piece, though a Russian or a moralist might be offended by some of it. For the parts I liked best, that doesn't matter; Friedman's last paragraph is very good advice for any nation state, dealing with any other. I'm abridging, modifying, and generalizing it here.

MD2225 rshowalter 4/13/01 6:18pm MD2226 rshowalter 4/13/01 6:34pm

but almarst objected, in ways I found surprising, but interesting and valid.

MD2227 almarst-2001 4/13/01 11:29pm ... MD2228 almarst-2001 4/13/01 11:31pm

MD2229 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?224@184.WDXhafpzvbe^1946516@354441@.f0ce57b ... reads:

"Authoritarian regimes, having little legitimacy, can almost never admit a mistake."

"Let's look at "Democtatic" regimes:

"Japan did not admit its crimes in WWII,

"Britain, France, Holland and Belgium did not admit their crimes of colonialism

"Turkey did not admit genicid against Armenians.

"US did not admit its own criminal behavier - the use of Atomic bombs and bombing of Dresden aganst civilian population, napalm and agent Orange in viuetnam, massaceres of civilians in Korea, support for blody Dictatorships and terrorists around the glob, bombing of Serbia and many many more.

. . . .
all good points. I responded with ... MD2230-2234 rshowalter 4/14/01 5:50am .. which includes this:

"To get rid of lies that have been hidden in the past, and to make a world where "everybody's reading off the same page" possible, some appropriate apologies, that match what actually happened, are going to be necessary.

"Quite often, because both circumstances and people are so complex, apologies in both directions, each for limited, specific reasons."

rshowalter - 08:36pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9497 of 9524)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I'm going to leave it there a while.. It isn't that some wrongs don't have to be righted.

But for justice to work, people have to be "reading off the same page" in the ways that are needed so that unnecessary or unnecessarily explosive fights can be avoided.

lunarchick - 08:55pm Sep 19, 2001 EST (#9498 of 9524)
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'we are a 'megadiverse' country'

Politician describing Australia / Canberra

Any advance on that? :)

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