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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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almarst2003 - 02:35pm Mar 20, 2003 EST (# 10269 of 10272)

Russia expresses regret - http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

China Demands Halt to Attack - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61290-2003Mar20.html

India - "Attack Unjustified" - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&u=/ap/20030320/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_iraq_india_1&printer=1

Mexico - "Against" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61880-2003Mar20.html

Oh, how could I forget

Albania, Afganistan, and another 33 not less importand nations (rather heads of), fullpocketly support the war.

jorian319 - 04:11pm Mar 20, 2003 EST (# 10270 of 10272)

IMO it is equally regrettable that those who denounce our attack on Iraq are called traitors or "pro-Saddam", and that those who condone it are called "pro-war". I am sure that the vast majority of Americans who are opposed to our attack on Iraq are not traitorous in any sense, and I am absolutely certain that almost nobody supporting the attack is "pro-war".

These rhetorical devices cause people who could benefit from unity, to talk past each other and turn differences in persective into false ethical gulfs.

"How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? Nobody knows - it hasn't been tried."

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