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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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gisterme - 02:26am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10451 of 10465)

almarst2003 - 09:31am Mar 24, 2003 EST (# 10416 of ...) http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.8Ywtab9A5Cn.1324952@.f28e622/11965

"...BTW. What do you think the next superpower will do if a weakened US will turn "patriotizm" to "fascizm"?..."

I can't say for sure almarst, but I do know for sure that you would complain about it.

almarst2003 - 02:29am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10452 of 10465)

An unidentified Iraqi man holds an unidentified girl wounded after U.S.-led coalition air strikes over the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Saturday March 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Nabil) - http://news.lycos.com/news/photo.asp?section=BreakingPhotos&photoId=293509

Nothing is identified but all too familiar.

almarst2003 - 02:40am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10453 of 10465)

I would cover the walls by this picture in every room of each of the architects of "America in 21 Century" doctrine. For a life.

An unidentified Iraqi man holds an unidentified girl wounded after U.S.-led coalition air strikes over the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Saturday March 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Nabil) - http://news.lycos.com/news/photo.asp?section=BreakingPhotos&photoId=293509

gisterme - 02:42am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10454 of 10465)

almarst2003 - 09:44pm Mar 24, 2003 EST (# 10444 of ...) <a href="/webin/WebX?14@28.8Ywtab9A5Cn.1324952@.f28e622/11993">almarst2003 3/24/03 9:44pm</a>

"...I was fuxated,..."

I doubt it almarst. Otherwise you wouldn't be so grouchy all the time!

"...For me it was a triumph of Mongols...."

You're such a racist almarst! Maybe if you got fuxated you wouldn't feel so insignificant. :-)

The converstaion is not very meaningful on this thread, almarst, but it's definately polite.

gisterme - 02:47am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10455 of 10465)

rshow55 - 10:26pm Mar 24, 2003 EST (# 10449 of ...) http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.8Ywtab9A5Cn.1324952@.f28e622/11998

"...Whatever generalizations people wish to make with respect to the Iraq case might well be crosschecked with the Kosovo case..."

When we get Saddam, his sons and Slobo in adjacent cells, a lot of crosschecking will be possible.

almarst2003 - 02:50am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10456 of 10465)

"You're such a racist almarst!"

Unlike some, I am trying not to confuse History with Etnicity.

But you may be right to some extent. This kind of aggression better be known as "triumph of Americans". Thanks for the correction.

gisterme - 04:10am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10457 of 10465)

almarst2003 - 02:50am Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10456 of ...) http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.8Ywtab9A5Cn.1324952@.f28e622/12005

This war will never be triumph of Americans and British and Austrailians and 42 others but it will be liberation of Iraqis.

We'd rather stay home and watch cartoons...or exercise our right to say any stupid thing we want on the internet...and you know it. It's just that we want to be left alone while we do it...and we'd also like the Iraqis to have the right to do it too...just as sort of a side benefit. Maybe when some liberated Iraqis can come to this forum it will begin to make some sense.

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