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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 - 11:49pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9595 of 9607)
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Pakistan People dying : http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/international/asia/22STAN.html http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/14/int14.htm
Asia warns US against 'eye for an eye' logic By Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK: "Regional human rights advocates reacted with revulsion at Tuesday's multiple acts of terror in the United States, describing it as a "crime against humanity," but called on Washington to use legal and judicial measure to go after the perpetrators than violent means.

The "acts of terrorism were crimes against humanity - the murder of thousands of innocent civilians," read a statement released on Wednesday by human rights experts from 12 Asian countries gathered here to garner more support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Those behind this crime have violated both national and international laws, said Gotham Arya, president of the Forum Asia Foundation, a Bangkok-based regional human rights body. "It cannot be justified, destroying so many innocent lives."

"We call it a crime against humanity because it is so, not one that affects only the US, but all of us, people. It is an assault of such magnitude," added Ahmed Ziauddin, advisor at the Asian Network for the ICC. However, the statement issued by the rights advocates cautioned the US government against "indiscriminate unilateral military reaction - which has been a response to past terrorist acts - and which could result in more innocent deaths and a cycle of recrimination, revenge and terrorism."

It argued, furthermore, that the crime underscored the need for the US to recognize the merits of international legal measures to bring those responsible to justice through cooperation within the international community "in outlawing, investigating (and) prosecuting those who commit these most serious crimes against humanity". (more)

lunarchick - 06:07am Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9596 of 9607)
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Alex, on US declaring 'war' used a phrase (post deleted by host) that said "now the genie is out of the bottle" .. I illustrated this via a fractral pictorial 'No more genie in the bottle' showing a flowing swirling motion on a coloured background (host deleted). Alex was saying, once the genie of war is out of the bottle - how will it be returned to it - and peace restored.

Looking back to the Iraq war (ElderBush) ... the genie is still out of the bottle - that war did not close.

one notes that:

The terrorists of 11Sept were supposedly Saudi, but weren't - false identities .... Iraq and Saudi re ethnicity were once one and the same - were they Iraqi.

lunarchick - 06:21am Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9597 of 9607)
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From The Economist ..

The seeds of discord
Perhaps it would be more profitable to look deeper into the past. During the half-century of the cold war, the United States undoubtedly subordinated principles as well as causes to the overriding concern of defeating communism. The great upholder of laws at home was happy to trash them abroad, whether invading Grenada or mining Nicaraguan harbours. It propped up caudillos in Latin America, backed tyrants in Africa and Asia, promoted coups in the Middle East. More recently, it has been willing to kick invaders out of Kuwait, to strike at ruthless states like Libya and Iraq and, moreover, to go on trying to contain them with sanctions and, in Iraq's case, with almost incessant bombardment. Is it here perhaps—especially in the Middle East—that America has gone wrong? http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=788407

lunarchick - 06:37am Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9598 of 9607)
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Would Russia have performed better?

The notification and control system for the air transport in Russia does not allow uncontrolled flights and leads to immediate reaction of the anti-missile defense, Kornukov said. “As soon as something like that happens here, I am reported about that right away and in a minute we are all up,” - said the general http://emperors-clothes.com/news/navy.htm see http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/afghan.htm

lunarchick - 07:01am Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9599 of 9607)
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Hyperinflation - will it be revisited?

classical Model see

Should the state bail out 'failing' industry? Overcapacity of provision - is this the State's (read taxpayer) problem?

lunarchick - 07:19am Sep 22, 2001 EST (#9600 of 9607)
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Any comment re potentials for inflation and hyperinflation wrt WTC fallout & war?

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