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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 - 11:56am Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10703 of 10712)
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.

Both good points.

rshow55 - 12:01pm Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10704 of 10712)
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.

The following questions are worth some thought.

What would the Iraqi people want? (And what could they really settle for, as they are? )

What would the American people want? (And what could they really settle for, as they are? )

What would the "Arab street" want? (And what could they really settle for, as they are? )

How about analogous questions for all the other players, as national groups, as military players, as leaders, as members of organizations?

Is it really true that we're at an impasse - or necessarily headed into a meat grinder?

Ought not to be. And nobody ought to ask anybody else to change unchangeable things.

almarst2003 - 12:03pm Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10705 of 10712)

UK forces 'destroy' Saddam statues - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2898003.stm

British forces say they have staged a raid into the southern city of Basra to destroy a large statue of Saddam Hussein.

WE DIDN'T REACH THE TOP OF AN ABSURD YET, DID WE?

rshow55 - 12:16pm Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10706 of 10712)
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.

We'll get closer, the way things are going.

The Brits must be getting desperate.

On my questions in 10704 - another basic question is

What would people be proud to do - at the time - and proud to explain later.

An often-neglected question.

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