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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's
war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars"
defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make
the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an
application of science be successful? Is a militarized space
inevitable, necessary or impossible?
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lchic
- 10:19pm Apr 1, 2002 EST (#1011
of 1026)
A Perception shared is a perception halved!
lchic
- 11:15pm Apr 1, 2002 EST (#1012
of 1026)
'... it is important for us to be able to see people
fighting against injustices, oppression, for fighting against
foreign occupation of their land.
This should not be
lumbered together with terrorism.'
Islamic Foreign
Ministers conference Malaysia April2002
lchic
- 11:35pm Apr 1, 2002 EST (#1013
of 1026)
Its morgue, with 25 bodies, is full, and the Israelis will
not let the bodies be buried.
.. As passions and bloodshed mounted, so did protests against
Israel — and America, seen as its backer — with tens of thousands
massing in Cairo and clashing with the police, and with similar
scenes at Jordan University in Jordan, which is usually tightly
ordered.
.. He called it "the most short-sighted policy I have ever
seen."
lchic
- 11:48pm Apr 1, 2002 EST (#1014
of 1026)
.. reoccupation "is not the purpose, not the aim, not the
strategy of the Israeli government''. But what that strategy was
remained unclear to many Israelis.
One Israeli writer, Rogel Alpher in Haaretz, yesterday
scathingly described Mr Sharon's Sunday night address to Israelis
as "troubled and neurotic''.
"independence" is snuffed out in those areas once given to the
Palestinian Authority, to be replaced by the old routine of fear
and Israeli midnight arrests and torture, so Palestinian anger and
frustration continues to build
Robert
Fisk
lchic
- 12:22am Apr 2, 2002 EST (#1015
of 1026)
"If you two don't STOP fighting I'll lift you up by the
scruff of the neck and knock your heads together" ...
An
attention grabbing old_saying from the politically incorrect days
of yore! So why didn't Bush lift them by their proverbials and
threaten to knock their heads together - on this board, would that
be 'nuke them both out of existence' ... have gun will shoot ...
America's spending a lot on defense -- isn't it of any use?
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And the LOSER IS Bush
.. of course!
lchic
- 04:30am Apr 2, 2002 EST (#1016
of 1026)
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
Well, it could spin out of control. In the meantime the
United States and Israel are increasingly isolated
internationally. This could hurt our ability to conduct the war on
terrorism and last but not least-- and this worries me a great
deal -- I think the Palestinians are being turned, largely by Mr.
Sharon, into something like the Algerians: People absolutely
determined to wage urban guerilla warfare brutally, ruthlessly, at
any cost at enormous self-sacrifice.
And the Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white
supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower
form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and
justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of
terrorism, which is true.
But the reactions are all out of proportion, and all of that I
think is a very sad spectacle and ultimately a spectacle of
failure of American strategy.
lchic
- 09:17pm Apr 2, 2002 EST (#1017
of 1026)
Arafat and Sharon should resign, says EU official
- EU official calls for new leadership
- Sharon says Arafat should go into exile
- Gun battles rage across West Bank towns
- US diplomatic staff to leave Jerusalem
As gun battles raged across the West Bank towns of Bethlehem
and Ramallah, the EU foreign policy head, Javier Solana, today
called on the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian leader to
step aside and make way for new leadership.
... Speaking to a Spanish radio station today, Mr Solana said
the battle between the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, and the
Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, the increasingly crucial
dynamic in the fighting, appeared to be bitterly personal.
"Sharon and Arafat ... have lived through this conflict for
too long. I do not wish them any harm, but it would not appear bad
to me if they allowed other people to lead this conflict," Mr
Solana said. http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,677697,00.html
lchic
- 09:30pm Apr 2, 2002 EST (#1018
of 1026)
'The problem with Arafat is that he has a lot in common with
Sharon: old, ruthless and cynical' http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=279881
http://www.independent.co.uk/search.jsp?keywords=robert+fisk
almarst-2001
- 11:27pm Apr 2, 2002 EST (#1019
of 1026)
Today, America is no mere superpower or hegemon but a
full-blown empire in the Roman and British sense. - http://www.iht.com/articles/53141.html
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