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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 - 06:32pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10674 of 10677)
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.

often with the highest possible stakes Turning Away for the Holocaust by Max Frankel http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/specials/onefifty/20FRAN.html . . and stakes are high now.

If leaders and staffs of NATO countries face their problems -and make decisions that they will be proud to explain to the people they care about, and have to care about - every reasonable need of US security, and word security - can be improved step by step.

One useful step - easy for staffs - would be to look at gisterme's postings - and see what they have to show about the logic of situations that might be improved. Those links (more than 1000) can be accessed from http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/407 .

That still seems sensible.

Almarst , in 10671 you asked key questions. If enough was checked, b persuasive answers might emerge.

I'll say this. If leaders of nation states worked as hard as gisterme does - we'd be likely to make a lot of progress.

There's room for improvement.

(If I'm repeating messages here, it is because I think the messages important.)

lchic - 06:52pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10675 of 10677)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

SWOPS - a sort of game - you give me this and in exchange i'll give you that

Why not 'give' the Arab world all the shares in all the world's ail lines - right now

As a SWOP for ... let's say oil fields

This would turn their attention skyward and they'd have to ask

HOW can they maximise their return on an AIR-Share ...

Right-away they'd think 'posteriors on seats' and how to get them there ...

How ?

A peaceful non-terrorised world which encourages folks to literally 'fly into each other's arms' so to speak

and

let's them visit many cultures as tourists and factfinders

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So right now - this minute - if 'the oil' were no more ... and AIR-Shares were it ... the whole of the Islamic culture would gain a new and different mile-high, so to speak, value system

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Who's for a re-feul stop over in the Gulf ?

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