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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?

rshowalter - 08:49am Mar 26, 2001 EST (#1530 of 1536)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Just one example, among many -- might it be effective if ExxonMobil felt that the common, irresponsible practice of threating first use of nuclear weapons cost them money?

It might be a source of communication that might tend to modify some current shameful behavior.

(Clinton also threatened others with nuclear weapons, and I told him it was shameful, on this thread and another thread.)

lunarchick - 08:53am Mar 26, 2001 EST (#1531 of 1536)
lunarchick@www.com

I wonder what gives an American Government a buzz. If it is being the richest power block, enticing State Heads to venture by, then a realignment of Nations might lessen this aspect.

While Americans have a supposed policy of staying out of the affairs of other Nations, the search for 'rogue' states (the bad guys) is dangeroulsy simplisitc .... especially when 'find the bad guy' leads on to 'test out arms and weapons on the suppoed bad guy' !

rshowalter - 08:55am Mar 26, 2001 EST (#1532 of 1536)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Here is part of rshowalt 9/25/00 3:50pm :

"Now, we've become corrupted, attempting to justify the unjustifiable with evasive words. "Willy_Nilly) #6238, in the favorite poetry forum is an example of how facile, yet dangerous, the logical corruption of nuclear weapons can be.

willy_nilly "Favorite Poetry" 9/23/00 10:43am

"When you use the words "threat" and "threaten" in the grossly undefined, multiple meaning way used in this piece - this is what you get ......

" I, the president of the United States, can kill anyone I want, for any reason or no reason, and no one can stop me, or question me, because I can use these genocidal weapons without qualm or fear, and can justify anything at all I wish to, with facile, beautiful sounding words."

" It is a brilliant performance, and the logical degeneration in the piece is stunning - because it acts as if first strikes are justifiable, which they are not, and operationally permissable, which they are not. If Clinton were put on a witness stand, with videotape, and a competent lawyer (Gerry Spence might be best) were to walk through the word usages in this passage in context, it would be chilling. The passage is one of the scariest things I've seen, and it is standard, classic U.S. military doctrine.

" We may be "the good guys" in most ways, as President Clinton so rightly says. But our military posture is garishly out of kilter with the rest of us, and the rest of the world knows it, and resents it, and we should fix it

lunarchick - 08:57am Mar 26, 2001 EST (#1533 of 1536)
lunarchick@www.com

Showalter, I have a date, with none other than the International Date Line. Perhaps you might revisit my reuter posts -- re cultural understanding. Nite!

rshowalter - 08:58am Mar 26, 2001 EST (#1534 of 1536)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

lunarchick 3/26/01 8:53am That realignment is happening. The EU initiative in the Koreas is an example.

The US is losing its moral authority -- authority is deserves in many areas, because of indefensible, insane, dishonorable conduct, over long duration, in military affairs, especially those concerning nuclear weapons.

rshowalter - 08:59am Mar 26, 2001 EST (#1535 of 1536)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Sleep well ! I'll look again. Thanks.

lunarchick - 09:00am Mar 26, 2001 EST (#1536 of 1536)
lunarchick@www.com

Showalter, I have a date, not with the World-President above, the International Date Line. Perhaps you might revisit my reuter posts -- re cultural understanding. Nite!

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