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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 - 12:43pm Jun 13, 2001 EST (#4991 of 4993)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

The Bush administration wouldn't have to be involved to get a great deal done -- though it would, of course, be better if it was.

If Putin, George Soros (or Turner, so any of 20-50 other people) and 2 or more leaders of major nations wanted it done -- - - we could get to the truth, on some very essential issues. The money could be private. Some of the legitimacy would have to come from the public interest of respected nation states __ one of which, more and more, is Russia.

rshowalter - 12:47pm Jun 13, 2001 EST (#4992 of 4993)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

almarst-2001 6/13/01 12:40pm

You're right that this is a strictly bipartisan mess. What happened is that a small group, dominated by Curtis Lemay, took effective control of an enormous amount of US nuclear policy late in the Eisenhower administration -- and has had it ever since.

The thing to see, though, is that no matter how awful our nuclear tactics and cold war tactics have been -- the American people (not totally, but significantly) have been misled, too. And there has been a propaganda campaign, along lines very similar to those the Nazis perfected, going on a long time.

If the American people really understood what happened, they would not approve . . . and they'd disapprove, especially, about what has been done since 1990 --- again, a bipartisan mess.

rshowalter - 12:49pm Jun 13, 2001 EST (#4993 of 4993)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

It is worth noting that I have not been killed, and that, on this thread, I've been permitted to write. That's true whether I've been right or wrong.

There are strongly redeemable features about the american culture -- and about many, if not most Republicans -- as well as Democrats.

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