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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 - 09:13pm Jul 2, 2001 EST (#6445 of 6462)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

It is in the interest of many other countries, including all the other nations of NATO, and Japan, and Russia, to ask, specifically, and through many channels, for those changes.

rshowalter - 09:17pm Jul 2, 2001 EST (#6446 of 6462)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Comments from 100 postings back still make sense to me. There are important things for Russia to do, and for America to do. Each side should help the other make necessary changes, it seems to me. For mutual benefit, and in the cause of a peace that needs to be found, and cannot be found by military gimmicks. MD6345 rshowalter 6/30/01 4:02pm

rshowalter - 09:18pm Jul 2, 2001 EST (#6447 of 6462)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I've had a stressy couple of days.

I'm signing off for tonight.

almarst-2001 - 09:30pm Jul 2, 2001 EST (#6448 of 6462)

Washington knew of Nazi horrors in Europe from 1942 - http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/entertainment/afp/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010703/entertainment/afp/Washington_knew_of_Nazi_horrors_in_Europe_from_1942.html

almarst-2001 - 09:55pm Jul 2, 2001 EST (#6449 of 6462)

ferruccio0052 "Instability in the Balkans" 7/2/01 9:40pm

"The four charges are: deportation; murder; violation of the rules and customs of war; and persecution on political, religious and racial grounds. Is this the Milosevic trial or are we studying US history? It gets so confusing sometimes.

Now we see that the indictment has been amended to delete any mention of NATO bombing! The majority of "evidence" is after NATO started bombing and they don't want to draw any attention to that! If this wasn't so tragic it would be hilarious"

almarst-2001 - 10:50pm Jul 2, 2001 EST (#6450 of 6462)

Soul Brother - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/opinion/29FRIE.html

"Mr. Clinton was able to get the first round of NATO expansion through only by promising the U.S. public and the Pentagon four things: It wouldn't cost anything, the U.S. would never actually have to deploy troops to defend these new NATO members from Russia, our European allies would all go for it, and the Russians could be bought off. Indeed, Mr. Yeltsin was paid well for his wink."

An interesting comment, indeed. Its being an "open secret" the Yeltsin was bribed and then blackmailed up to the "after-bombing" of Serbia shock which kicked him out from Kremlin.

almarst-2001 - 10:56pm Jul 2, 2001 EST (#6451 of 6462)

Iran military alert for U.S. attack - http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010701-61440807.htm

almarst-2001 - 11:04pm Jul 2, 2001 EST (#6452 of 6462)

'THE TRIAL' – as co-authored by Carla Del Ponte, Ramsey Clark, and Franz Kafka - http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html

After a decade of moves and countermoves, wars and rumors of wars, slaughter and destruction, it seems all the cards are finally on the table this week. As Macedonia is in the process of being sacrificed to the Empire’s crazed attack dogs, and Serbia is being forced to sell out the elementary principles of law for less than the customary thirty pieces of silver, the forces behind both campaigns of destruction must feel a power rush of epic proportions. They no longer seem to need the smokescreen of rhetoric and platitudes to obscure their sinister scheming. As temperatures rise, so does their arrogance, approaching again the preposterous levels of Rambouillet and the beginning of NATO’s aggression in the spring of 1999. - http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m-col.html

The current Condition Delta global alert against terrorist threats called by the United States government last Friday because of allegedly credible threats from "Saudi millionaire" (as he’s always described) Osama Bin Laden’s organization could give us preliminary answers to an unsettling question. Is the U.S. government or the militant Taliban regime in Afghanistan closer to being a truth teller? - http://www.antiwar.com/bock/bockcol.html

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