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    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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fredmoore - 04:43pm Aug 24, 2003 EST (# 13368 of 13375)

Lou,

Perhaps the best missile defence of all is a deep and meaningful educational curriculum where teachers feel a creative freedom. One that teaches not just things but how to learn them, without fear of corporate dictatorship. Only future generations with that kind of education can withstand the variety and scope of missiles that will always be hurled at a country which is a leader of nations and which attracts missiles against it for its good decisions as much as for its bad ones.

Nulla apologetica!

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