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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 - 05:53pm Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5970 of 5980)
lunarchick@www.com

George Johnson : D-10 - little constructive input, just snide insinuations, as one has come to expect.

Raises the question as to why you don't move to the LAB Missile Thread to fulfill your personal agenda!

rshowalter - 06:55pm Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5971 of 5980)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD5892 rshowalter 6/23/01 12:11pm

This board is hard to read -- only a few people have read it in its entirety. And it is not an entertainment medium -- which makes it different from most boards. But it is showing how communication between staffed organizations can occur -- and I hope staffs use it. I have some hope that some are.

rshowalter - 06:58pm Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5972 of 5980)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Questions about the US military budget - matters of effectiveness and prioritites.

MD5893- rshowalter 6/23/01 3:17pm .... MD5894 rshowalter 6/23/01 4:01pm

rshowalter - 07:03pm Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5973 of 5980)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Extensive and fruitful "simulated conversations."

MD5895 rshowalter 6/23/01 4:03pm ... MD5896 rshowalter 6/23/01 4:05pm
MD5897 rshowalter 6/23/01 4:07pm ... MD5898 rshowalter 6/23/01 4:08pm

Some reasons for concerns, and some judgement of attitudes, can be gotten by reading passages by gisterme , this thread's "Bush Administration Advisor stand-in" , and relating these passages to morality that, in Friedman's phrase "can make Machiavelli seem like a Sister of Mercy" MD5899 rshowalter 6/23/01 4:16pm

also MD 5525 rshowalter 6/20/01 11:06am
MD5527 rshowalter 6/20/01 11:10am

Here are links to discussions of Henry Kissinger that relate to that.
MD5948 rshowalter 6/24/01 12:30pm . . . MD5949 rshowalter 6/24/01 12:31pm
MD5950 rshowalter 6/24/01 12:32pm ... MD5951rshowalter 6/24/01 12:32pm
MD5952 rshowalter 6/24/01 12:33pm

Some real sisters of mercy, who know a lot about what is involved, are going to jail protesting US training of Latin American militaries closely linked to many war crimes over many years: Sibling Nuns Will Go to Prison for Protesting at U.S. Military School By LAURIE GOODSTEIN http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/24/national/24NUNS.html

rshowalter - 07:21pm Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5974 of 5980)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD5845 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?7@184.WjYLaz1hqR7^2339327@.f0ce57b/6252

" Could people be acting irrationally, because theyve done things that they cannot admit having done? Or are they acting rationally, in their private interests, but against the interests of the nation and the world, because they have done things that they cannot admit having done?

. . . .

Carlyle looks bad: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/politics/05CARL.html

MD5846 lunarchick 6/22/01 7:02pm MD5847 lunarchick 6/22/01 7:06pm

Things should be checked ... in ways that can actually get right answers.
MD5848 rshowalter 6/22/01 7:10pm .... MD5850 rshowalter 6/22/01 7:15pm

This means that some key questions need to be staffed , and checked to closure, with many, many crosschecks, so that answers consistent with facts can be determined.

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