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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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rshow55 - 09:12pm May 7, 2002 EST (#2069 of 2079)

MD2045 rshow55 5/5/02 11:45pm . . . we can check things, and if we do - the press (and reasonable national interests) will be strengthened.

I'm proud of the work lchic and I did referenced in MD2045 rshow55 5/5/02 11:45pm . . . and think people inclined to doubt my loyalty should read it.

MD1888 rshow55 4/29/02 4:56pm

MD1238-1239 rshow55 4/10/02 6:40pm

MD1999 rshow55 5/4/02 10:35am ... MD2000 rshow55 5/4/02 10:39am
MD2001 rshow55 5/4/02 11:36am

rshow55 - 09:19pm May 7, 2002 EST (#2070 of 2079)

Sharon Cuts Short U.S. Visit After Meeting With Bush By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Explosion.html

If Sharon really wanted a stable peace - he'd stay and talk.

One more suicide bombing is no valid reason to leave Washington - and the entire world, watching, will know that.

Jenin isn't the only "locus of facts" being avoided by Sharon -- or the Palestinians either.

We have some new tools - and we should learn to use them. MD2045 rshow55 5/5/02 11:45pm

Perhaps some influentials in the world are learning, and it will make a difference.

lchic - 10:19pm May 7, 2002 EST (#2071 of 2079)

The BBC/Guardian have a reputations for checking things ...

manjumicha2001 - 11:36pm May 7, 2002 EST (#2072 of 2079)

It really hurts to see Bush Jr. lately trying to make sense of his confused state of mind. He seems to keep repeating "why can't my friends and enemies just do what I tell them to do?"

It is really sad.

manjumicha2001 - 11:38pm May 7, 2002 EST (#2073 of 2079)

And he is being played like a rubber ducky, sqeaking noisly everytime his "friends" squeese him tight.........

lchic - 01:06am May 8, 2002 EST (#2074 of 2079)

"One's never alone with a rubber duck." -- Douglas Adams

lchic - 06:12am May 8, 2002 EST (#2075 of 2079)

Al-Tantura 1948 secrets and lies : ^{http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/special00/tantura.htm}

lchic - 06:25am May 8, 2002 EST (#2076 of 2079)

Friedman-Indonesia

..... some top Pentagon officials are definitely pushing to let the Indonesian military make a comeback and to restore ties with the Indonesian military that were suspended after the army ran amok in East Timor in 1999. Indonesia is just beginning to try military officers involved in those killings. If there is any hope of senior army officers being held accountable for East Timor, it will certainly be lost if America signals that all it cares about now is that the new antiterrorism laws being debated by the Indonesian Parliament give the army anything it wants. ^{http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/08/opinion/08FRIE.html}

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