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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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lchic - 03:18pm Apr 13, 2003 EST (# 11285 of 11294)
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what future is there for Iraq? Who should be in charge of it?

Hospitals - damaged by war + looting - "" The dead are left unattended, and the increasing summer heat and deteriorating water and electricity supplies create a high risk of epidemic disease.'

http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,935651,00.html

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!! Don't recall any posts (above) over past months that indicated what to 'practically expect' on the fall of Saddam

lchic - 04:24pm Apr 13, 2003 EST (# 11286 of 11294)
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lchic - 01:45am Apr 14, 2003 EST (# 11287 of 11294)
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The rise of the Washington 'neo-cons'

The Editor briefing

Monday April 14, 2003

The Guardian

A small group of rightwingers, known as neo-conservatives, is shaping US foreign policy. Who are they, and what is their agenda?

Q&A's

How did they get the name? Many of them started off as anti-Stalinist leftists or liberals. They are products of the largely Jewish-American Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which morphed into anti-communist liberalism between the 1950s and 1970s and finally into a kind of militaristic and imperial right with no precedents in American culture or political history. They call their revolutionary ideology "Wilsonianism" (after President Woodrow Wilson), but it is really Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution mingled with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism.

    Michael Lind in the New Statesman, April 7
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,936393,00.html

lchic - 01:52am Apr 14, 2003 EST (# 11288 of 11294)
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Regime Change / by Andrew Motion (UK)

Advancing down the road from Niniveh Death paused a while and said 'Now listen here.

You see the names of places roundabout?

They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Take Eden, further south: at dawn today

I ordered up my troops to tear away

its walls and gates so everyone can see

that gorgeous fruit which dangles from its tree.

You want it, don't you? Go and eat it then,

and lick your lips, and pick the same again.

Take Tigris and Euphrates; once they ran

through childhood-coloured slats of sand and sun.

Not any more they don't; I've filled them up

with countless different kinds of human crap.

Take Babylon, the palace sprouting flowers

which sweetened empires in their peaceful hours -

I've found a different way to scent the air:

already it's a by-word for despair.

Which leaves Baghdad - the star-tipped minarets,

the marble courts and halls, the mirage-heat.

These places, and the ancient things you know,

you won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

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lchic - 01:53am Apr 14, 2003 EST (# 11289 of 11294)
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Landmines divided by population of Iraq

Population of Iraq divided by Landmines

Landmines divided by population of Iraq

Population of Iraq divided by Landmines

Landmines divided by population of Iraq

Population of Iraq divided by Landmines

Landmines divided by population of Iraq

Population of Iraq divided by Landmines

fredmoore - 08:25am Apr 14, 2003 EST (# 11290 of 11294)

The following joke may shed some light on the state of the UN.

At a UN function in New York, a Swedish diplomat walked over to a small group and attempted to make small talk. "Pardon me, what is your opinion of the current security shortage in Iraq".

The American looked puzzled and said, "What's a shortage?"

The Pole scratched his chin and said, "What's security?"

The Russian shrugged and said, "What's an opinion?"

The Israeli said, "What's Pardon me? .... So much meshugena business!"

And the Frenchman said .... "I don't know, but what can we get out of it"

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