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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 - 06:17pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9579 of 9590)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Here are some postings I showed almarst that I still like.

MD7389 rshowalter 7/24/01 8:18pm

rshowalter - 06:19pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9580 of 9590)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

It seems to me, still today, where so much of human concern, and human hatred is on view, that the concerns in Mankind's Inhumanity to Man and Woman - As natural as human goodness? 1-4 , http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b085/0 make sense.

rshowalter - 06:21pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9581 of 9590)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Though I know the suggestion here is incomplete, it still makes sense to me. Doubtless other approaches might be better. But this approach seems simple, and practical. I feel that people could understand it, and remember it.

MD266 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:32am ... MD267 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:33am
MD268 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:35am ... MD269 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:36am

At the end of an all-day web discussion with "beckq" I made an offer that still stands.
MD304 rshowalt 9/25/00 5:28pm

armel7 - 06:24pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9582 of 9590)
Science/Health Forums Host

rshowalter -- Thanks for the posts and suggestions. I think it might behoove your points to be less prolific. Rather than posting references to old posts, how about just waiting for replies on the original before moving forward to new points. In that way it would be more of a discussion than a bibliography.

But, again, thanks for your participation.

Your host,
Michael Scott Armel

rshowalter - 08:00pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9583 of 9590)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Perhaps these pictures and short descriptions, which say "we're talking about human beings here" say more than any words of mine can say.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/index_MISSING.html

Years ago, I used the phrase "in principle" once too often. My teacher sat me down, and made me count, and make clear markings, from 1 to 10,000 . To give me a sense of real limits.

More agony, more pain, more loss than anyone can hold in their minds has happened.

I'm concerned about losses more than a million times larger than the losses in the WTC tragedy crime.

Perhaps I shouldn't be. But I am.

All I know to do is say "check this -- these losses don't have to happen."

I feel that people, if they'd just check their work, could sort things out well enough to prevent messes this bad.

Pardon me for taking up too much space. I'll stay off, unless in response to others, for 24 hours.

lunarchick - 09:12pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9584 of 9590)
lunarchick@www.com

Nuclear bomb ? - 'The City' gears up.

lunarchick - 10:16pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9585 of 9590)
lunarchick@www.com

Summation

World war I - didn't close > world war II

Sept 10 Bwsh international standing & credibility along with US gvt lowest ever.

Strategic alliances shifted from Washington to other power blocks based on Brussels, Mexico, Moscow.

eg: Australian insurers - re-cover on 4 lost jets $aus350m

eg: Australia - Westfield - re-retail WTC

Conflict of Interest - Bush family have commissions from military manufacturing - Carlyle.

Truth?

Fall in living standards worldwide!

Bwsh becomes 'leader' of the world wrt latest 'Indefinite WAR'

Expected: Reprisals - world centers - nuclear bombs !?

Famine relief removed from 1m Starving Afghan civilians

World War I - didn't close > World War II

Elder Bush Presidency! Iraq!

lunarchick - 10:21pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9586 of 9590)
lunarchick@www.com

'The City'

rshowalter - 10:22pm Sep 21, 2001 EST (#9587 of 9590)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

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