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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?

lunarchick - 09:39am May 1, 2001 EST (#2876 of 2880)
lunarchick@www.com

"a hairbrained scheme to defend the US against non-existent threats"

cookiess0 - 09:54am May 1, 2001 EST (#2877 of 2880)

bobdoran1 - 07:32am May 1, 2001 EST (#2867 of 2876)

" Hanoy"

It is HANOI you dumb backwoods southern idiot.

lunarchick - 10:01am May 1, 2001 EST (#2878 of 2880)
lunarchick@www.com

If starWars is a hairbrained scheme, then no one working on it would have either interest for it, or self respect for themselves.

Remember that the strength of an economy is seen via the engineers who build it.

What alternative work could the Scentists and engineers be deployed to do and to what benefit to society ?!

Bush seems to be driving the Empire of the USA off the rails. Think of the collapses of other empires .. they relate to poor leadership, expansionist over commitments leading to total breakdown!!!!!!!

There are blueprints for good societies with good leadership. In business the CUSTOMER is the FOCUS ... from this flow products that meet the needs of the individual.

Why can't governments focus on the needs of their customer - the people! If they tailor the system to best fit the needs of people, then they will advance society and make it a better, fairer, more interesting place in which to grow the next generations. Interesting to note that the Scandanavian countries are the world leaders .. how do they meet the needs of their people and economy .. they seem to be doing some things right. A question for the USA to ask is why is it so MEAN to it's own people, mean with food stamps for the starving, mean with medical availabity/affordability and mean to the point of looking for 'rogues' .. rather than embracing the population and setting it up for success ... why so many in jail on such long long sentences .. where's the humanity?

scottinorlando - 10:27am May 1, 2001 EST (#2879 of 2880)

Dateline: 2003 Along the Potomac at the site of the former Capital Washington DC.

The talking heads all said it was not possible last year when a nuclear explosion leveled DC. No missiles were ever launched and no retaliation has yet taken place as remaining Federal officials at the new Capital in Des Moines, Iowa still have no conclusive evidence of responsibility.

President Strom Thurmond remains mystified by events of the past two years and has decided not to stand for election in 2004.

The remaining field offices of the FBI lack the resources to process the available information in order to find the perpetrators of this crime.

Many still believe a band of Idaho militia to be responsible for the action and not Saddam Hussein. Everyone, including Grenada, continues to deny responsibility.

Ownership of the VW Microbus, identified in satellite photographs, parked in Georgetown at ground zero remains a mystery.

The newly elected congress, where Republicans barely maintain control, called for additional funds to expedite the development of the Star Wars missile defense program.

Many New Yorkers remain uneasy over the Clintons recent return to Hope, Arkansas. Tension also continues to run high among residents of Houston since George H.W. Bush moved to Dubya’s ranch in Midland. He is still in shock from the loss of his son in the DC incident. Many are wondering if any former President knows something that we do not. In desperation not seen since the electric crisis, Californians have recently turned to Reagan for insights on the problem.

rshowalter - 10:29am May 1, 2001 EST (#2880 of 2880)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

You can ask

" where's the humanity"

-- and you can also ask --

" where's the sense of proportion -- the consistency -- the rationale -- on the basis of any set of assumptions that can be checked?

The sitation is very, very ugly.

The only explanation I can see (though I'd be interested in others) is that theres'a a pattern of lying, and corruption on a large scale, that's gone on so long that the people involved, now deeply corrupt, feel there is nothing to do but to keep pushing.

The one thing they seem convinced they have to deflect is honest, public, checking -- of what can actually be done.

Under current rules and usages, within the United States, they've been successful keeping that checking from happening.

Outside the United States they've had much influence, too.

This thread is being monitored, and has been monitored for a long time.

Dawn and I have been seriously harrassed.

I believe that the reason that points we've made have not been responded to is that the "military industrial complex" people have positions which, quite apart from legitimate issues of national security, cannot stand the light of day.

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