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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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gisterme - 08:06am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13079 of 13091)

fredmoore - 08:30am Jul 10, 2003 EST (# 12924 of ...)

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"...Surely there was as much anti US sentiment and 'criminals on-the-loose' in post WWII Germany as there are now in Iraq?..."

There is a difference, Fred. Hitler did not go underground and attempt to continue the war in an "organized crime" mode. He at least came to his senses enough to know when he was finished.

The Husseins and their band of thugs will just have to be rooted out until there are none left. Fortunately there aren't that many of them and most Iraqis are cooperating with the effort to put and end to them. That's why so many of those bad guys are being caught.

gisterme - 08:18am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13080 of 13091)

lchic - 04:55pm Jul 11, 2003 EST (# 12959 of ...) http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?16@13.NYdsb8hqrl3.349278@.f28e622/14635

"...Speaking at the conference in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, Sheikh Tantawi said extremist Islamic groups had appropriated Islam and its notion of jihad, or holy struggle, for their own ends..."

Yes!!! The only way that these pseudo-Islamic extremist groups will ever be stopped without a world-wide bloodbath is for folks like Sheikh Tantawi, who represent true Islam, to speak up.

I'm really glad to hear that it's beginning to happen.

gisterme - 08:27am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13081 of 13091)

rshow55 - 07:30am Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12968 of ...)

"...How many career intelligence professionals could stand up to gisterme - who goes out of his way to be a bully..."

If pointing out your apparant lunacy via simple observations makes me a bully, Robert, then I plead guilty. Otherwise, I'm innocent until proven guilty.

I must say, though, that based solely on what we've both written on this thread, it would be much easier for me to prove you're a lunatic than for you to prove I'm a bully. :-)

gisterme - 09:00am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13082 of 13091)

rshow55 - 03:12pm Jul 19, 2003 EST (# 13050 of ...) http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?16@13.NYdsb8hqrl3.349278@40679d@.f28e622/14728

"...Am I " connecting the dots" badly?..."

Either badly or not at all, Robert.

gisterme - 09:14am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13083 of 13091)

jorian319 - 01:28pm Jul 21, 2003 EST (# 13068 of ...) http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?16@13.NYdsb8hqrl3.349278@.f28e622/14747

Speaking of Showalter...

"...I guess that's to be expected from someone gullible enough to convince himself that the President of the United States has nothing better to do than post here as Gisterme..."

Thanks jorian. I think Robert just claims I'm somebody he thinks is important in order to stroke his own ego. After all, he has to somehow justify all the time he wastes on this thread. In my opinion he needs such delusions to feed his insatiable appetite for self-importance.

Same thing with the whole "house arrest" thing. He also needs to be a victim. Then there's Eisenhower and Bill Casey... :-)

gisterme - 09:18am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13084 of 13091)

"...But perhaps I'm delusional myself - ..."

Timely statement Robert, ...your choice of words, not mine!

"...I think gisterme is either George Bush, or someone quite close to him - with more effective rank in the administration that Secretary of State Powell..."

You know as well as I do that I have nothing to do with government beyond being a voter and a taxpayer.

fredmoore - 09:26am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13085 of 13091)

His name is Gisterme

and 4 years is his term

as president of the USA

little Robbie salutes

and we all stamp our boots

for Lincoln's wanted back in the office today.

Now Robbie, he's wrong

and the point of this song

is of course to put pay to that sway

and Gisterme is alas

a bit of an ass

to continue to come out and play.

FM2468

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