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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 - 11:41am Jul 15, 2003 EST (# 13030 of 13034)
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.

12595 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.MsMgb8cFqcw.0@.f28e622/14253

1466 -1480 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?8@@.ee7b2bd/1631

People say and do things. .

What people say and do have consequences, for themselves and for other people. .

People need to deal with and understand these consequences, for all sorts of practical, down to earth reasons. .

. So everybody has a stake in right answers on questions of fact that they have to use as assumptions for what they say and do.

If the bolded point, just above, were more widely and deeply understood - and linked to the simple points just above it -- a great many things in the world would be better - and people, just as they are, could solve many of the most important and practical problems they face.

As of now, the idea that "everybody has a stake in right answers on questions of fact that they have to use as assumptions for what they say and do" is actively denied whenever anyone with power actually objects.

Instead, the point should be common ground.

The Bush administration is backwards - and the word "evil" is reasonably applied to their backwardness.

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12393 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.MsMgb8cFqcw.0@.f28e622/14046 cites a fine editorial and also includes this: - - - -

I've written plenty on this thread that cannot be traced (at least, without the active cooperation of the CIA - and they may have destroyed their records.) But can anyone find anything I've written on this thread, regarding facts, that can be shown to be wrong - where intentional deception can be shown?

Or any mistakes of fact - except a very few which I quickly acknowledged and corrected?

I've made judgements, too - and here's one. The Bush administration needs to be distrusted and called to account.

The connection between their practices, and Nazi practices - is too close for comfort. They should fix it - and other Americans should insist that they fix it.

The security of the United States, and the things about the United States that are worth defending - depend on facing these responsibilities.

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