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    Missile Defense

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 - 07:16pm Apr 3, 2003 EST (# 11028 of 11037) Delete Message
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.

Lchic's Religious Shackles http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.eea14e1/7805 bears thinking about - and connecting to the story of the Reverend Jim Jones

(Lecture Notes: Introductory Psychology by Prof. Evan Pritchard http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~epritch1/social98a.html

Islamic leaders ought to be careful about supporting people who behave too much like Jim Jones.

Or Saddam Hussien .

Whether you believe in God or not - this is a time where religious issues are pressing on us. And religious traditions are being tested.

O Ye of Much Faith! A Triple Dose of Trouble by LAURIE GOODSTEIN http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/weekinreview/02GOOD.html

This is a rare moment in history, like a planetary alignment: three world religions simultaneously racked by crisis.

Islam is not going to distinguish itself - or perserve itself, by associating itself with any lie that any clergyman chooses to tell by reflex, of by backing thugs like Saddam Hussien and his followers.

If we can just check for consistency - and get some very basic things clearer - a lot could go pretty well. The alternative is chaos.

almarst2003 - 08:33pm Apr 3, 2003 EST (# 11029 of 11037)

Iraq: A Simplistic View for Simpletons - http://english.pravda.ru/usa/2003/04/04/45578.html

almarst2003 - 08:40pm Apr 3, 2003 EST (# 11030 of 11037)

Russian Muslims declare holy war against US - http://www.gazeta.ru/intnews.shtml?246007#246007

almarst2003 - 10:54pm Apr 3, 2003 EST (# 11031 of 11037)

Whatever happens in the weeks ahead, George W. Bush has “lost” the war in Iraq. The only question now is how big a price America will pay, both in terms of battlefield casualties and political hatred swelling around the world. - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2003/033003a.html

Remarkably, in the first week and a half of the war, Bush has managed to make the unsavory Saddam into a cult-like hero across the Arab world. His death would make him a martyr. Even Arabs who disdain Saddam and his brutality take pride in the fact that Iraqis are standing up to the military might of the United States, the world’s preeminent superpower.

Bush also has guessed wrong on the one crucial ingredient that would separate meaningful victory from the political defeat that is now looming. He completely miscalculated the reaction of the Iraqi people to an invasion.

More and more, Bush appears to be heading toward that ultimate lesson of U.S. military futility. He’s committed himself – and the nation – to destroying Iraq in order to save it.

almarst2003 - 11:19pm Apr 3, 2003 EST (# 11032 of 11037)

"This is going to turn out to be one of the most brilliant, if not the most brilliant, campaign in the history of warfare," Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (ret.) said on Fox News. - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0404/p01s03-usgn.html

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