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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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rshowalter
- 01:41pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6551
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Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
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Bill Casey also not only respected -- he revered ,
the standards of decency, and openness, and flexibility -- that
THE NEW YORK TIMES tries to stand for -- and usually does.
When I talked to Casey, he was very clear about
the conflict -- and his sense of the terrible moral box he and
others had gotten the United States into. . . . . Perhaps, if
Casey hadn't had the brain tumor he had, and died in 1989, the
terrible tragedy of the last decade might not have happened quite
as it did. Perhaps some grace not found could have been found. I
don't know. This happened.
When the Soviet Union fell, and everyone, on all
sides, had so much hope, we didn't have an end game -- and the
United States was so tied up with lies, that it could not sort out
problems before it -- or help the Russians sort out their
problems.
rshowalter
- 01:41pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6552
of 6556)
Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
Some background, and an offer that still stands.
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rshowalter
- 03:28pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6553
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Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
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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.
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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.
rshowalter
- 03:46pm Jul 4, 2001 EST (#6554
of 6556)
Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
Enormous stakes, (note a point made by gisterme )
and things that could be done:
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