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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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 - 02:49pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10650 of 10659)

mazza - "In 1939, many Americans felt that "America First" meant that we should stay out of foreign entanglements. Had the Japanese not bomber Pearl Harbor"

lchic,

Do you think mazza heard about Monroe Doctrine? Or about events which lead to Pearl Harbor?

BTW. The Pearl Harbor was classic example of preemptive war. With much more credibility then the one we watch on TV.

Who knows. Some day mazza may retire and decide to learn somthing beside Space Odissey:)

lchic - 02:59pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10651 of 10659)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Mazza might be caught treading the wheel that turns these 'nets of wonder' eternally !

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1029/

lchic - 03:04pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10652 of 10659)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Looking backwards - Looking forwards

Arguments can be

based on the past - historic

They can also be

based on the future - futuristic

Showalter often opens up 'new potential futures'

Looking forwards - Looking backwards - Thinking NOW

commondata - 03:11pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10653 of 10659)

Agreed Almarst. There aren't many people left in the world who believe that this war is anything more than American conquest in support of American economic interests. Look, shame on them, they don't even bother to hide it:

A coalition is afoot in the U.S. Congress to replace European with American cell phone technology in Iraq as soon as the conflict is over and the country rebuilds.

http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/2171271

Let's hope there are some people left to use the Yankee cellphones:

There were grim reports tonight that a missile strike on a busy marketplace in Baghdad had killed up to 55 people and left scores more wounded.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,924907,00.html

almarst2003 - 03:14pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10654 of 10659)

Coalition airstrikes have battered Baghdad and other areas of Iraq in some of the most intense bombing in nine days of war. Medical sources in the Iraqi capital say at least 30 people had been killed Friday and about 50 wounded in a bombing attack on a marketplace. Witnesses said eight people died earlier in a raid on a ruling Ba'ath party office. - http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=1789300A-B329-4FFD-A7EE90900C63935C

THIS IS A TURNING POINT IN A VOCABULARY AND REALITY OF THIS WAR. THE SMILES AND GLOVES ARE DROPPED.

FROM NOW ON, THE "VICTORY" (at any cost) WILL SUBSTITUTE "LIBERATION". WITH ALL THE EXPECTED CONSEQUENCES.

lchic - 03:20pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10655 of 10659)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Australian Government donates $aus60m WHEAT aid to Iraq .... the shipment that Saddam cancelled ...

"" under Int-Law the direct needs of a people are the responsibility of the invading nation

... Dinner is Served -- seating 20 million people!

lchic - 03:33pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10656 of 10659)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Why - in WAR terms - US+ must bomb Baghdad

repost http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.ChLMaXkP6dM.0@.f28e622/12190

To keep the momentum of their mission

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