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Missile Defense

Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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lchic - 01:45am Mar 17, 2003 EST (# 10102 of 10119)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

10101 Almarst running in binary mode sees the world from the digital perspective :)

lchic - 01:52am Mar 17, 2003 EST (# 10103 of 10119)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Proto types have the habit of falling over! P1, P2, P3 ----- Ad infinitum

almarst2003 - 04:41am Mar 17, 2003 EST (# 10104 of 10119)

"It takes little imagination to dream up other scenarios that might call for pre-emptive military action," said Thomas Donnelly, a military analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank that has led the charge for war against Iraq.

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/6284906p-7238632c.html

almarst2003 - 04:57am Mar 17, 2003 EST (# 10105 of 10119)

Is Tony Blair crazy, or just plain stupid? - http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_mar16.html

almarst2003 - 05:06am Mar 17, 2003 EST (# 10106 of 10119)

London, March 16: British Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing the embarrassing prospect of being prosecuted for 'war crimes' over the Iraq crisis by his wife's human rights law firm.

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=19855

rshow55 - 07:14am Mar 17, 2003 EST (# 10107 of 10119)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Blair is many things. Maybe wrong. Maybe backwards in spots. But neither stupid nor irresponsible. He and his wife are raising a fairly new kid - I suspect they communicate from time to time.

Almarst , I know you're just a mere poster like me - neither a mover nor a shaker. But on a day where serious negotiation is possible - I hope people who do have power to act leave off name calling and negotiate well.

9880 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.l6SPa4Bd5gL.0@.f28e622/11422

and farther back, 9139 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.l6SPa4Bd5gL.0@.f28e622/10665

We have to get facts straight. We're in historically new territory - with some old, old dangers, but some new opportunites.

Unless leaders of nation states are prepared to place limits on their ability to decieve - there is no solution to our biggest problems of stability.

All the same, one fact is clear. Efforts at negotiation have gone on - at high intensity - for a long time. Possible compromises ought to be reasonably clear.

Sometimes, people with power have to use it. In ways that make sense to them. Bush and Blair have done so. Other leaders need to do so as well.

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