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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 - 08:03am Jun 29, 2001 EST (#6271 of 6276)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Still working on gisterme's excellent and mind-wrenching question of yesterday.

Wish I knew as much as Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch, or the Harvard or Stanford B-school deans, working on the issues involved -- but I'm doing my best.

lunarchick - 08:04am Jun 29, 2001 EST (#6272 of 6276)
lunarchick@www.com

Short on logic: MidMoo

".....narrow minded idelogy ,one just taking care of the Germans"

It took care of the greedy & powerful, the regular folk were enslaved with no free will.

The NAZIs came over to the USA at the end of the war infiltrating the USA - especially the C..IA, and the NAZI methods were put in place. Do a search on the word .. Casey .. and check through the web pages re NAZI doctrine -- in the USA. Also do a search on the word NAZI on this thread.

rshowalter - 08:05am Jun 29, 2001 EST (#6273 of 6276)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

A nice thing about this thread is that, though it is public in some ways -- it is so cumbersome and buried -- and of such low status -- that it is "semi-private" too. So far as I know, not a single news article, anywhere, has so much as mentioned it.

That's good. People need right answers. But a part of right answers that work, for real situations - is that, within frameworks of acceptable justice -- people have to be able to save face, too.

rshowalter - 08:09am Jun 29, 2001 EST (#6274 of 6276)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

While deals are getting crafted -- they need to worry about that. Some of the costs of action -- for real people -- happen when the actor has to ask, in the ways that apply .... "what would the neighbors think."

Politicians, and people in organizations, especially.

rshowalter - 08:14am Jun 29, 2001 EST (#6275 of 6276)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Berle's Laws of Power , and some related matters, connected to Bush, Putin, and Missile Defense

MD5285 rshowalter 6/16/01 3:01pm .... MD5286 rshowalter 6/16/01 3:02pm
MD5287 rshowalter 6/16/01 3:03pm .... MD5288 rshowalter 6/16/01 4:44pm

rshowalter - 08:17am Jun 29, 2001 EST (#6276 of 6276)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Back to gisterme's tough question.

Seems to me that a lot of good things can happen, and that, with peoples' heads up, the chances of the world being destroyed are getting less.

Still terribly worrisome, but less.

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