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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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lchic
- 08:16pm Apr 4, 2002 EST (#1078
of 1092)
PSI
lchic
- 08:25pm Apr 4, 2002 EST (#1079
of 1092)
If anyone explored this link (above) -- one article seemed to say
that the USA had OKAYED the Israeli assault to continue for at least
4 more days! Silence from Bush is taken as the OK to kill and keep
killing!
lchic
- 08:27pm Apr 4, 2002 EST (#1080
of 1092)
Enough is enough - Bush
President tells Sharon to end West Bank occupation http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,679195,00.html
lchic
- 10:12pm Apr 4, 2002 EST (#1081
of 1092)
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Robert Fisk: A speech laced with obsessions and little else
-- President Bush had totally failed to understand the tragedy he is
supposedly trying to solve. ... The mugger became the victim and the
victim became the mugger. What, I wonder, is the exact distance
between the Rose Garden and Bethlehem? So the US Secretary of State,
Colin Powell, is travelling to "the region'' next week. Next week?
Why not now?
But of course, the White House, which according to the Israeli
press has repeatedly been asking Mr Sharon how long he intends to
reoccupy the Palestinian cities of the West Bank, is to give
the Israeli Prime Minister more time to finish his invasion,
destroy the Palestinian infrastructure and dismantle the
Palestinian Authority.
The dollar has fallen against world
currencies
05 April 2002 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=281726
Far more instructive than the Bush speech was the measured,
fair way in which Terje Larson, the UN's special Middle East
envoy, and Nigel Roberts, the local director of the World Bank,
tried to describe the tragedy. In a short press conference they
appealed to both sides to end violence and respect international
law and cited Israel as well as the Palestinians for breaking it.
The so-called Israeli "closed military areas" were, Mr Larson
said, "illegitimate and in direct violation of the [Oslo]
Agreements". Mr Roberts talked of the surge in violence as a
threat that could "consign to history the unique opportunity for
reconciliation''.
But "closed military areas" achieved another Israeli victory
over the Western television satellite stations. Yesterday,
the BBC, Sky and CNN, with their own crews largely prevented from
filming in the reoccupied Palestinian cities, all ran footage of
the Bethlehem battle taken by Israeli soldiers. Rather
than refuse to use the tape unless their own crews were permitted
access to the carnage, the three channels all dutifully used the
film taken by the army of occupation. Another milestone in the
collapse of journalism in the Middle East. But not so serious as
the collapse of America's peace-making.
lchic
- 10:24pm Apr 4, 2002 EST (#1082
of 1092)
"O little town of Bethlehem - how still we see thee cry"
lchic
- 10:31pm Apr 4, 2002 EST (#1083
of 1092)
Under Blair’s leadership, the whole government seems not only
to be leaning further and further to the right, but also to be
taking this great British democracy back to the good old days of
imperialism and colonialism. Robert Cooper, a senior Foreign Office
diplomat attached to Downing Street and Blair’s key foreign policy
adviser, has just issued a pamphlet titled “Reordering the World,”
featuring a foreword by the prime minister. Claiming that it was the
task of liberal democracies (of which one assumes Britain still is)
to “bring order” to the rest of the world, he calls for “a new kind
of imperialism” to enable Britain to intervene abroad, naturally all
under the cover of “combating global terror threats.” In fact,
writes Cooper, “the need for colonialization is as great as it ever
was in the 19th century.”
Cooper argues that active intervention is sometimes necessary,
even if Western countries may break the rules. “Among ourselves, we
operate on the basis of laws … but when dealing with more
old-fashioned kinds of states outside the post-modern continent of
Europe, we need to revert to rougher methods of an earlier era
force, pre-emptive attack, deception.” To make sure he is perfectly
understood, Cooper adds that “when we are operating in the
jungle, we must also use the laws of the jungle.” So much for
British diplomacy. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/04_02_02_c.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/
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