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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 - 06:48pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9765 of 9807)
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Slow? - A statistical review here (quality control) shows - 'faster than the rest'. rshowalter 9/23/01 6:23pm

A questions for the ether - kindly don't answer.

Had an energy source other than oil been used to power engines in the 1880's - would the world be a different place?

lunarchick - 06:51pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9766 of 9807)
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Talibhans only answer this question:

Treating women with cruelty, starvation, beating them with chains, shooting them ... does this go against nature - where women, by numbers, are of greater significance than men - who are for the most part technically disposable.

lunarchick - 06:53pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9767 of 9807)
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?4 Colin Powell only:

As a trained and professional military man - how do you get along with the current US Administration?

The world sees a little tension.

rshowalter - 08:10pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9768 of 9807)
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A very, very important post: MD9749 almarst-2001 9/23/01 11:29am

rshowalter - 08:11pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9769 of 9807)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

HOW TO SEARCH THE MISSILE DEFENSE FORUM

MD9057 rshowalter 9/14/01 2:26pm ... MD9440 rshowalter 9/19/01 8:07am

rshowalter - 08:17pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9770 of 9807)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

My eyes are getting tired, and I'm knocking off.

Things are complicated - - complicated enough that they are treacherous, but the complication itself carries opportunities - - things that can be hopeful.

Back tomorrow on that.

Will post Missile Defense articles published in the NYT, as I have done for past weeks.

We need to be WORTHY of the GOOD THINGS people associate with this flag - - not just wave it.

lunarchick - 08:27pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9771 of 9807)
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Showalter - nobody outside the US knows or understands much about that flag .. isn't it the wrap for the coffins of the military dead?

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Question: Is the US a fit Nation to lead the current anti-terrorist campaign?

Iran has spoken to it.

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rshowalter - 08:27pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9772 of 9807)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

For the national interest, and to minimize the risks that motivate missile defense, there could not be a more important job than this:

Secretary of State Colin L. Powells task in the Bush administrations campaign against terrorism is to mobilize international support for the United States and convince Muslim countries that Muslims are not the target of U.S. revenge.

I'm hoping to work out approaches that Secretary Powell's staff might actually be able to use.

rshowalter - 08:33pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9773 of 9807)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

lunarchick 9/23/01 8:27pm . . . If we aren't, we ought to become so.

The islamic radicals are wrong about a helluva lot.

But one of the best things we could do, for our own interest, and that of the world, is to respond honorably to objections where they happen to be right.

In Islamic radical schools, all over the mideast, it is explicitly, carefully taught that US nuclear policy is so immoral that it justifies anything the terrorists can do. The teaching is especially clear about their objection to our threatening the use of nuclear weapons, and not renouncing them for first strikes.

(If anyone doubts that this is US policy, this thread has plenty of evidence, starting with the dialog of Sept 25, that it is).

We ought to remove their reason for objection here -- for our own good, and the good of the whole world.

lunarchick - 08:33pm Sep 23, 2001 EST (#9774 of 9807)
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Question: Will the 250,000 Afghan males, brainwashed into becoming derancinated fanatics via Saudi initiative and in line with a USA Cold War tactic - start a class action to demand compensation, from Saudi and the USA, for mental torture and loss of human livelyhood?

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