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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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almarst2002 - 11:49pm Jun 3, 2003 EST (# 12296 of 12303)

Anti-American sentiment is widespread and at an all-time high in the Muslim world, a global research project released yesterday said. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,969779,00.html

THEY STILL DON'T LIKE US????!!!!

almarst2002 - 11:59pm Jun 3, 2003 EST (# 12297 of 12303)

As Congress and the media realize they have been "had" with respect to political manipulation and fabrication of intelligence leading to the strategically unwise war on Iraq, and the failed transition to peace in both Afghanistan and Iraq (as well as the losing wars on terrorism, drugs, crime, and poverty), there is renewed discussion of the need for a *public* summit on intelligence reform. - http://www.oss.net/extra/news/?module_instance=1&id=1158

rshow55 - 08:59am Jun 4, 2003 EST (# 12298 of 12303)
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.

Pope, Powell Discuss Iraq and Israel By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:46 a.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Vatican-Powell.html

`` There is absolutely no question that peoples and nations have the inherent right to live in security,'' the pope said. ``This right, however, entails a corresponding duty: to respect the right of others.''

Powell met with the Vatican's secretary of state and foreign minister before leaving for the Middle East, where top-level Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab leaders will be involved in talks with the Bush administration.

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There seems to be progress in the Middle East. I'm glad. Lchic and I have worked hard, when we thought we could - to promote a stable peace in the Middle East. For some months, in 2000-2001 we anchored the featured talk thread on the Middle East on the Guardian - Emotional Peace in the MIddle East. It talked a lot about the need for balances that can be phrased as "contradictions."

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Adults have secrets

lies and fictions

Live in their world

of contradictions

But if things go bad

and knock about

Folks get together

And work it out.

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Of course people need fictions, for all kinds of reasons. Everybody knows that. At some levels anyway. Everybody should know it better, more clearly, more deeply.

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When it counts enough - facts are safer than fictions. I believe that the world is approaching a crisis - where that has to be understood more clearly than it has been. The United States - and often enough, The New York Times - stands for both facts and fictions. We need better balances - better patterns of exception handling, than we've got.

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