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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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rshow55 - 10:03am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11609 of 11609)
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.

The lack of checking procedures that made it possible for the Blair case to happen ought to be a scandal - and in my opinion, ought to be worth as much attention as the shuttle disaster.

And more sophisticated, honest attention.

Some of the answers ought to be simple .

Including these:

. No person , regardless of status or rank, deserves unconditional trust - and some basic mechanisms of checking ought to be expected, and made routine - on matters of fact. Not simply financial facts subject to accounting, though accounting is obviously important. "Accounting" about facts and relations ought to be important enough to insist on whenever stakes are high.

. No insitution deserves unconditional trust, either. The NYT, too often, acts as if it does - and for that reason - it is less trusted, less influential less worthy of trust and influence than it otherwise would be.

Everybody, and every institution, ought to be subject to checking to closure when it matters enough. Including the CIA - but definitely including the NYT, as well.

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