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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 - 09:13am Apr 26, 2001 EST (#2622 of 2628)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

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A reasonable concern for our vulnerabilities, and for the DANGER of our military arrangements in the new world, is overdue.

Getting down nuclear weapons that are otherwise a menace to the safety of the world is an essential step.

And a reasonable concern for the MORALITY of our actions in the world, and of our internal arrangements and cover stories, is overdue as well. We live in glass houses. As all people do. We should remember that, and try to help our neighbors, and cultivate the ways of peace.

Perhaps this administration can make these adjustments. Perhaps, at some levels, they know that they have to. Even so, it will be remarkably difficult, perhaps even inhumanly difficult, for them to do so, given the lies they are associated with, and the conflicts of economic interest buried deep in the lives of many in the administration.

rshowalter - 09:19am Apr 26, 2001 EST (#2623 of 2628)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

It seems that steps are being taken against the economic interests of Carlyle, in the Howitzer deal, and others. But the difficulties involved in these actions remain reason for concern, and there are many deals to be considered. rshowalter 3/11/01 5:10pm

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rshowalter - 09:25am Apr 26, 2001 EST (#2624 of 2628)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Sometimes, "unconditional trust of the military" is insane, and against the interests of the United States, and almost everybody concerned.

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lunarchick - 09:27am Apr 26, 2001 EST (#2625 of 2628)
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Deja Vu

rshowalter - 09:31am Apr 26, 2001 EST (#2626 of 2628)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Conspiracy, and social workings of a complex society, can sometimes look much the same. And truths that were, for a long time, "somehow too weak" can become strong, and propagate through the culture.

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rshowalter - 09:36am Apr 26, 2001 EST (#2627 of 2628)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

A demonstration: rshowalter 2/14/01 7:36am

rshowalter "Science News Poetry" 2/14/01 9:09am
We need to live in a world that is safe. ....... and sometimes, ideas that have been "fizzling" need to propagate through the culture. It can happen.

Chain Breakers: http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee7ec3f/119

rshowalter - 09:43am Apr 26, 2001 EST (#2628 of 2628)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

It is essential, whatever one's interpretation of the facts, or feelings about the facts, that some core facts about the cold war and the nuclear terror be known. We need to know what was done.

Here are excerpts from the dustcover of DARK SUN: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Simon & Schuster, 1995 rshowalter 3/22/01 11:48am

We need to STOP DOING the kinds of things that we did in the middle of the Cold War, and accept some of the things we did -- peaceful relations with China, Korea, and much of the rest of the world depend on our doing this.

The Cold War ought to be over.

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