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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 - 06:55am Sep 24, 2001 EST (#9811 of 9824)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

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

rshowalter - 06:57am Sep 24, 2001 EST (#9812 of 9824)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

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

Our allies, and people all over the world, should be able to expect that.

They should be able to check that worthiness and consistency, judge it, and discuss it.

For their own sakes. And ours.

lunarchick - 07:56am Sep 24, 2001 EST (#9813 of 9824)
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Imran Khan (xCricketer) Pakistan Politician, has real concerns regarding civil unrest occuring there - especially if 'deaths' happen in Afghanistan. Peoples of Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan, he said, were culturally one. # .. >

President George W Bush lifted sanctions at the weekend against India and Pakistan, that were imposed over their nuclear programmes.

In a statement, the president said maintaining the sanctions, which barred economic and military assistance to India and Pakistan, "would not be in the national security interests of the United States".

Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's ambassador to the US, praised the move, saying it "will enable Pakistan to get economic aid and it's a very important development".

In India, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nirupama Rao called the US move a "welcome development".

"With the removal of sanctions, we can strengthen a broad-based, forward-looking and mutually beneficial relationship with the US," Rao said.

rshowalter - 08:01am Sep 24, 2001 EST (#9814 of 9824)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

lunarchick 9/24/01 7:07am

So should we. We should have a sense of how explosions happen - - and sense enough to see to it that it is good things that happen - - not nightmare things.

The spacing on Chain Breakers http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee79f4e/618 .. has been changed by a computer change at the Guardian, but I believe it is worth looking at here, anyway.

I'm also posting another expository poem, Secular Redemption. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/619

We need solutions that are redemptive and detonative. Not nightmares.
MD1925 rshowalter 4/2/01 8:00pm

The Bush administration, too often, does things exactly wrong. It looks to me like a sign error buried in their logic.

Maybe President Bush is right, and he's been chosen by God. Chosen to be a terrible example for the whole world.

almarst-2001 - 08:10am Sep 24, 2001 EST (#9815 of 9824)

It is telling that the biggest hope for the future in Afganistan the "democratic" West holds for restoring the Afgan King to the power.

As for Iran: "Straw said. "This is a coalition of civilisations. The civilisation in Iran is very, very deep." - http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010924/world/afp/Afghanistan_mobilises_300_000_as_war_clouds_gather.html - Remember, this is a comment on a country which just a couple of weeks ago was on a US-British "worst enemies" list.

As I remember, it was a Thomas Friedman argument about inherent unpredictability and inconcistency of a policy of dictatorships, implying the opposite for the Western "democracies".

Will Mr. Friedman acknowlege his "mistake"? Any bet?

rshowalter - 08:14am Sep 24, 2001 EST (#9816 of 9824)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Friedman has many virtues - - but I wouldn't bet on it.

Not only Americans take such positions.

Didn't Solshenetsyn write a good book titled "WE NEVER MAKE MISTAKES" ... ?

It was about Russians.

almarst-2001 - 08:16am Sep 24, 2001 EST (#9817 of 9824)

And another one:

US President George W. Bush has asked Congress to lift restrictions on providing military aid and weapons to certain rogue states whose support may be crucial to his war against terrorism, a report said Monday. - http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010924/world/afp/Bush_asks_Congress_to_waive_restrictions_on_US__report.html

almarst-2001 - 08:22am Sep 24, 2001 EST (#9818 of 9824)

Robert - "Not only Americans take such positions."

Agree. But not all declare themselve "second to God" and the World Policemen, Judge and Executioner. And ACT like one!

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