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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?

servzone0 - 12:25pm Apr 20, 2001 EST (#2423 of 2433)

It does seem to be getting much more ugly
The USA has turned their backs on the(Joy.you.to)
Leaders from both sides.Now it will be missiles of mob and political partys
USA instead of working to help woman and children of USA
Simply turn away ,how much more ugly... I guess the woman in USA will turn to foreign support as a very smart lady, lunarchik had suggested. The world needs to get their act together Right away for world peace or else there may be a end to the earth. kaboom. I will reseach your links robert and chik. thank you....have also contacted a friend

rshowalter - 12:35pm Apr 20, 2001 EST (#2424 of 2433)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Thanks. Aesthetic and moral issues matter a lot and are very practical.
rshowalt 9/25/00 7:35am

rshowalt 9/25/00 7:36am
Human actions work best according to the following pattern:

" Get scared .... take a good look ..... get organized ..... fix it .... recount so all concerned are "reading from the same page ...... go on to other things."

Perhaps we are making progress on the first two steps of the pattern --- maybe, within the world's real limits, thing are moving as they should.

I hope so, and think there's reason to keep working.

Pieces like Friedman's today give me some hope.

servzone0 - 12:38pm Apr 20, 2001 EST (#2425 of 2433)

In addion some disturbing information passed my way on the global warming and enviroment forumn, it appears the leaders are plotting to blow up.. That girl ,what was her name? Joy.you.to I guess they were trying to force her into some type of illegal activitie? Prostitution? She wouldnt comply ..so now both sides.. Repubs and her friends???The democrats turned on her to, today they plan on sending a missile to terminate her. Have you noticed a lot of that going around? Well robert it was nice of you to provide links for her to contact the news media in the other countries. I read the science poets thread and it is certainly a horrible ordeal these people have put her though. I wonder why NY Times does not cover it? I bet washington post would... As I said before we need to do away with all these missiles that kill people. isnt it better to work for world peace?

rshowalter - 12:42pm Apr 20, 2001 EST (#2426 of 2433)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Nice reporting from an ace here. If the Chinese and Americans are inflicting pain in each other by actually saying what they think -- yet hanging on to continue to talk -- maybe that's hopeful.

U.S.-China Collision Talks End With Need for More Talk by ELISABETH ROSENTHAL http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/20/world/20CHIN.html

" The talks come during a particularly tense week in American-Chinese relations — a time when both sides, while acknowledging the need to get along, possess no reserve of good will to gloss over differences.

I found that comment profoundly right, and constructive placed as it was in the TIMES.

" As it was, the talks nearly came to an abrupt halt after Wednesday's two-hour session, as Bush administration officials in Washington complained loudly that the Chinese were grandstanding.

The painful fact is that the Chinese want to discuss issues that MUST be resolved, if the two countries are to get along well. As of now, threatening each other with nuclear weapons seems easier -- but talk ought to be, if not cheap, inexpensive enough to be preferable to continued, damaging, undiscussed hatreds.

servzone0 - 12:51pm Apr 20, 2001 EST (#2427 of 2433)

Yes We tried to talk to the leaders
But they ignore us
If I read it right in global warming, and enviroment, cantabb and applez speak of bush pushing the death of joy.you.to with missiles and gore going along with it. why? How will this effect his furture image as a powerful leader that backs off from world peace with the Chinse? I am sorry for all the trouble we have caused the people in china.they are good people. I think we Americans need to work with them and the russians to establish better relations or else like I said Bush will kill innocent woman and children...And the democrats will sit and watch.

The end is near robert.

rshowalter - 12:53pm Apr 20, 2001 EST (#2428 of 2433)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

servzone0 , THE NEW YORK TIMES and PEOPLE'S DAILY share some of the same manifest virtues, and both do great service to their countries. For both papers, there is some care about how they spend their ink --- and there are many delicate decisions. And sometimes it works out superbly:
rshowalter "Health in the News" 12/16/99 6:19pm
rshowalter "Health in the News" 12/19/99 1:29am

rshowalter - 12:55pm Apr 20, 2001 EST (#2429 of 2433)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Maybe, though the end seems close, there may be a way to say "not yet." http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/sermon.html

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