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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 - 03:19am May 2, 2002 EST (#1947 of 1961)

30 seconds of air turbulence - equates with WAR - turbulence is unpredictable whereas war is manufactured. United Airlines detour via NewZealand.

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more on wtc structure http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/

lchic - 03:23am May 2, 2002 EST (#1948 of 1961)

ERII mistakenly thinks the cold war IS over - when dirty nukes still abound

Since 1952 I have witnessed the transformation of the international landscape through which this country must chart its course, the emergence of the Commonwealth, the growth of the European Union, the end of the Cold War, and now the dark threat of ... http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1126.asp

lchic - 03:32am May 2, 2002 EST (#1949 of 1961)

"Iraqis often say that all they have left is their dignity, and go to extraordinary lengths to look elegant, reshaping and resewing clothes and taking care over personal appearance. It is courteous to reciprocate." travel-Iraq

lchic - 03:37am May 2, 2002 EST (#1950 of 1961)

"Iraqis often say that all they have left is their dignity, and go to extraordinary lengths to look elegant, reshaping and resewing clothes and taking care over personal appearance. It is courteous to reciprocate." travel-Iraq Do Bushy's guys know to dress well? Shouldn't they wear cleaning gear - to clean up the radio-active mess they scattered last time!

If there was a world LAW body - which there should be - it would make those who leave military 'dirt' around go back and clean it up. War seems to be an excuse to abandon law - pity those poor people who hour by hour have their limbs blown off, are subjected to cancer causing radiation, or have areas of once productive land taken out of service because of wardropped chemicals.

Holistic accounting should be implemented to determine the true COST of war!

lchic - 06:14am May 2, 2002 EST (#1951 of 1961)

War Horse Vision seems science had it wrong!

lchic - 06:16am May 2, 2002 EST (#1952 of 1961)

German WWII - atomic bomb - how close did Hitler come to getting it? see

lchic - 08:04am May 2, 2002 EST (#1953 of 1961)

Old war horses, those gargoyles of antiquity, currently reign over much of the world.
If they hold-in their heads, look down their noses, they see only ground - past viewpoints.
Whereas if they hold up their heads they have improved, panoramic vision - that includes people!

Interesting how bad leaders don't see others from elsewhere as real people - who think, feel, hurt, love, bleed.

See how those lost to the WTC were given space and thought, whereas, people from elsewhere are nought!

lchic - 08:40am May 2, 2002 EST (#1954 of 1961)

He described terrorists as ‘a bunch of misfits, looney tunes, and criminals’ see

‘the West is using international institutions, military power and economic resources to run the world in ways that will maintain Western predominance, protect Western interests and promote Western political and economic values.’
Huntington’s book has become a best-seller

lchic - 08:47am May 2, 2002 EST (#1955 of 1961)

""" The Australian philosopher, Raimond Gaita, describes President Bush’s rhetoric of a war on terrorism as bizarre and unreal. It paints the world in colours of black and white, which is of course the intention of the terrorists. Operation Enduring Freedom, which has replaced the earlier rhetoric of a crusade, is seen as a conflict between good and evil. God help us, says Gaita, if Americans do not think this is absurd. Use of concepts such as good and evil in this oversimplified way betrays a blindness to complexity and a tendency to arrogant judgmentalism.

It appears however that the American public continues to see things in terms of the good guys in white hats and the baddies in black hats. Ronald Reagan summed it up .... http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s510828.htm

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