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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 - 09:11pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8811 of 8822)
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rshowalt 9/25/00 7:36am - seems right.

rshowalter - 09:12pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8812 of 8822)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

rgbrasel 9/11/01 9:07pm Surviving, in addition to prevailing, would be nice.

logician3 - 09:16pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8813 of 8822)
Bush is an idiot.

NMD would not have prevented this attack - terrorist attacks are the highest probability ones, and the ones we must protect against.

rshowalter - 10:08pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8814 of 8822)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD8788 rshowalter 9/11/01 12:59pm

Things are not only dangerous, they are complicated.

. . . "What would constitute the end of the world FOR YOU? "

It may be a good day to think about that. http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/sermon.html .

almarst-2001 - 10:42pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8815 of 8822)

ADVENTURES OF AMERICAN RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT R-3. NOW IN RUSSIAN AIRSPACE - http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/11/14837.html

Today scandal caused the day before by ‘Washington Times’ had its further development. The newspaper referring to informed sources in Pentagon announced Russian Air Forces had almost brought down American reconnaissance aircraft R-3, which was flying over the Pacific not far from zone of Russian Pacific Fleet’s manoeuvres. According to the edition, Russian MiG-31 planes based on sea shore flew at least near to the American aircraft, and one of Russian pilots even caught R-3 with his radar system of fire control. Today Russian side strongly denied this information. Spokesman for Russian Air Forces said the planes flying over the Pacific in framework of the manoeuvres were not equipped with battle weapon. “US side’s announcement that Russian pilot was aiming his system of fire control at American aircraft is absurd”, he said. According to Russian militaries, R-3 was at a distance of 48 kilometres from Russian frontier, in zone of Russian artillery firing. The militaries stressed, any threatening activities towards the American were out of the question. On other hand, the American was in the manoeuvres zone with very understandable aims: NATO pilots have become too impudent. Recent incident in China is one more confirmation to it. Moreover, not long ago, a reconnaissance aircraft of Norwegian Air Forces flying in airspace over Barents sea has almost rammed Russian helicopter with vice-admiral Motsak on board. The R-3 very possibly also decided to probe Russian pilots. And they scared him. They should probably make him land on Sakhalin peninsula?

almarst-2001 - 11:03pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8816 of 8822)

"A new pact between Russia and China begs more scrutiny" - http://msnbc.com/news/616634.asp?0si=-&cp1=1

THE KOSOVO LEGACY But in a more global sense, it would be foolish to write these two agreements as mere diplomatic niceties — like some sister-city agreement between Osh Kosh and Omsk. Regardless of the motives one ascribes to American foreign policy since 1989, for much of the rest of the planet, it looks pushy at best, and imperialist or downright threatening to many. The Kosovo war — even without the accidental missile strike that destroyed China’s embassy in Belgrade — did more than strike fear into the hearts of potential American rivals. It also set them to thinking: ‘I certainly can’t beat ‘em, so who can I join?’

From the archive: The Moscow-Beijing axis Theorists and writers of the past decade rightly have identified the United States as the only player capable of making or breaking an issue on the international stage by virtue of its enormous economic power and its military superiority. But this caution can’t be stated frequently enough: in historical terms, this is a temporary phenomenon.

almarst-2001 - 11:41pm Sep 11, 2001 EST (#8817 of 8822)

Attacks Show That Political Courage Is the Only Real Defense - http://www.iht.com/articles/32239.html

lunarchick - 12:45am Sep 12, 2001 EST (#8818 of 8822)
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Alex: Hard to open almarst-2001 9/11/01 11:41pm

lunarchick - 12:53am Sep 12, 2001 EST (#8819 of 8822)
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The American President might take a leaf from the book of a race relations rep., speaking in Canberra today he said that leaders should emphasis over and over the difference between Crime/Criminal and ethnicity. Crimes are committed by people from ALL backgrounds, because someone is of a specific background it is wrong for a country to let them be labelled criminal. A nation is made up of people invited in to be citizens - from many countries.

National Press Club Address: Stephan Kerkyasharian, community relations commision

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