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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?
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dirac_10
- 01:37am Jun 23, 2001 EST (#5872
of 5878)
gisterme - 01:38pm Jun 22, 2001 EST (#5797 of 5872)
This speech by president Putin is quite brilliant and shows
why there should be great hope for the future of relations
with Russia.
Mr. Putin is a genius, a decent guy, on the side of the angels,
very tough, and the best thing that ever happened to Russia. Very
good news for us too.
Conspiracy? Well... Hard to believe anyone is that crazy. I
simply can't read it to find out. I'm resigned to just skip ahead.
lunarchick
- 08:52am Jun 23, 2001 EST (#5873
of 5878)
lunarchick@www.com
GI Johnstone Skippy .. if there's a real point to the above post
- you didn't make it!
gisterme - 07:55pm Jun 22, 2001 EST (#5865 of 5874)
lunarchick wrote: "...Robert is 'mainstream', which he certainly
is..." It only seems that way to you, lunarchick because you're
"out there" right next to Robert. Your saying .. " "out
there" next to Robert " .. has an implication of 'otherness'
from your perspective ... which (above) had been determined to be
within the limited style of Nazi conceptualisation ...ie labelling
people as 'other'.
lunarchick
- 10:07am Jun 23, 2001 EST (#5874
of 5878)
lunarchick@www.com
USA
military budget
lunarchick
- 10:26am Jun 23, 2001 EST (#5875
of 5878)
lunarchick@www.com
Photo
rshowalter
- 10:26am Jun 23, 2001 EST (#5876
of 5878) 
Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
We shouldn't be that far from a deal.
And we can only go forward.
But to do that, we have to make many decisions - and to make them
well, or safely, we need to know the key things about the past. Not
"to make a big thing of them" necessarily -- but to know
them, when decisions are made, and understandings formed.
Accomodations involved have to work. Objectively, and
emotionally, too, for the people involved.
Looks possible to me.
lunarchick
- 10:30am Jun 23, 2001 EST (#5877
of 5878)
lunarchick@www.com
Camp
photo 1942
rshowalter
- 10:31am Jun 23, 2001 EST (#5878
of 5878)
Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
With the ingenuity the Bush administration is now devoting to
making its case for missile defense (and you have to credit them
with ingenuity and initiative on this) they could probably figure
out how to achieve real peace, solve the global warming problem, and
assure the whole world an adequate and safe energy supply, forever.
They'd get a lot more credit for that than they're getting for
what they're now doing.
***
With a significant chunk of the money being spent on defense
spent on setting up conditions of peace -- there'd be much less for
America to fear.
The needs of the world are very great -- and it is hard to
justify the money spent on the military -- and the skilled human
resources that money represents --- when US expenditures are so
disproportionately large, and there is so much else to do.
   
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