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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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fredmoore
- 09:28am Apr 10, 2003 EST (#
11235 of 11235)
Continued ....
This not a naive attempt at UTOPIA. It is a less than 1% of
GDP global effort to understand what our civilisation really
is about and slowly setting about coordinating our collective
efforts to form a COHERENT approach to bring about a
sustainable pathway for our own future and for future
generations. The alternative is the chaos we are seeing NOW in
Iraq.
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As for the UN having teeth. The UN has never had teeth.
It's taken humanitarian disasters on their doorstep and a
vigilant US government to drag it kicking and screaming into
action, all too often, too late. With the new knowledge that
military action is affordable and cost effective in lives as
well as dollars, the wheels of the UN won't be so rusted and
reluctant to move in situations such as N Korea and the Congo.
THAT very knowledge will cause belligerant states to clean up
their act and only the action in Iraq will be required as
enforcement. However, If needed the UN now knows it can and
should act rather that allowing disasters to unfold at many
times the cost of intervention.
   
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