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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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rshow55
- 06:31pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (#
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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.
708 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.TiAvaHrS6qc.2092692@.f28e622/880
Almarst, it has been a long time since Eisenhower's
Farewell Address http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/ikefw.htm
of 1961- which clearly warned of things that have gone on, and
gone wrong, for more than forty years.
Thats such a long time that that, even valuing our
distinguished Vice President at the maximum possible influence
- there's got to be more to the story than that.
I've been arguing for getting some facts checked - pretty
steadily - for some while because it is important that
we have some things nailed down. (click rshow55 for
some details.)
Almarst , I think that in some significant ways
President Bush is not fully in touch with all he should be.
That doesn't mean that you have everything straight,
either! Or that I do, or that anybody else does.
But there's enough data that if we really worked at
it - with backing from heads of nation states - a lot could be
sorted out.
rshow55 - 08:58am Feb 11, 2003 EST (# 8811 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.TiAvaHrS6qc.2092692@.f28e622/10337
includes this
6999-7003 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.a229aP3zYzn^397117@.f28e622/8521
I am doing my best to play my part in "Wizard's Chess"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/05/opinion/05SUN1.html
Right now the world must seem like a
potentially deadly game of three-dimensional chess to the
the Bush administration. . . . .
America now faces a national security
challenge of extraordinary complexity. Washington must
simultaneously cope with three separate and potentially
grave threats — from Iraq, from North Korea and from the
threat of reconstituted international terrorist networks. It
is absolutely essential that appropriate priorities be set.
Right now, if leaders face their problems - and
insist that key issues be checked to closure we're in a
situation where the key problems in the world can be resolved
well - in the interest of all mankind - and in ways that are
distinctly in the interest of the United States of America as
a nation.
One nice thing about big mistakes is that, once you
see them, they are often clear, and easy to explain.
. . .
President Bush may be as good a man as Ronald Dittmore
(the manager of the Space Shuttle program). But Dittmore
has been capable of misjudgements, and mistakes, as are we
all. He is not enough better to be trusted unconditionally.
Checking - finding right answers - would be relatively easy
to do in terms of money and time - and the costs of not doing
so are vastly greater.
This is a hopeful time, if responsible people take the time
to do some easy, inexpensive homework - and hesitate to kill
without fully considered reasons. .
When things are complicated, truth is our only hope: http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/296
Truth is a substantial hope.
I think that if staffs of the nation states in NATO looked
carefully at http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/296
, and sections following in Psychwar, Casablanca . . . .
and terror - and thought about what would make them PROUD
- as representatives of their nations, and as human beings - a
great deal would sort out.
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/296
includes discussion of how the key questions of fact about
missile defense could be checked to closure - something that
current procedure militates against.
http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.TiAvaHrS6qc.2092692@.f28e622/5041
includes more discussion of the point, and includes this:
The weakness of truth - and the presentation
of it has been a key concern at the TIMES for a long time -
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