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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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lchic - 03:19pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14822 of 14863)
Truth outs in the end : truth has to be morally forcing : build on truth it's a strong foundation

'Bush system can't defend against missile launched from submarines just off our shores or from short-range.' WRC

So if Sharon sailed by ... he could further bend the USA to his will. http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1061399,00.html

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The use of conventional methods by Sharon to destroy Palestine ... 1500 homes destroyed ... implies that a huge number of people -equivalent to the numbers killed re the 'towers' - are now homeless.

As an occupying power Isreal has by International Law to 'look after the health and welfare' of the people under it's juristiction .... in view of this it will be interesting to read the slant that the responsible USA media take on this in their indepth stories.

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A poster put this on the board :

I don't like living with some moronic Communist pointing a gun directly at my head...that's not how I live my life.

Readers might presume that that poster is under matrimonial stress ... in-house-home domestic politics. Raising the question as to why a 'Texan-minded-Republican Canadian' would tie himself so closely to a 'sharp shooting moranic-communist'.

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klsanford0 - 03:25pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14823 of 14863)

WRC:

"It's (MD) been conceived to ward off small attacks by rogue nations or terrorists. Who among the latter group is a current threat...to us?"

MD is designed as I've said, to ward off future threats...who are these threats....Japan, (who knows the future..?) Iran, (word is about of a new Saudi-Egyptian nuclear effort) a Russian coup artist who gets his hands on some small part of the Russian arsenal, (like Gen. Lebed, who asked Moscow for nuclear control of missiles in his Siberian fiefdom) or anybody we don't know about yet....

klsanford0 - 03:31pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14824 of 14863)

Loopeychic:

"that poster is under matrimonial stress ..."

Besides the fact that your insane ravings have consigned any partly sane comment you might make to irrelevance.....I am single...you're wrong again, as per usual....

lchic - 03:34pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14825 of 14863)
Truth outs in the end : truth has to be morally forcing : build on truth it's a strong foundation

If the USA pays people to 'think' in the Intelligence dept., and if the head of that dept., takes breakfast each moring with 'the president - of the day', then will it be seen in the emergence of archival papers ... years down the track, that the question of assisting Russia to clean-up the Nuclear mess was raised.

Is there a recap of who's said what and responses and logics?

'Intelligence' would (if it were intelligent) have known that the complete collapse and chaos, post the downing of the Berlin Wall, and supposed end of the 'cold war', would have left a lot of 'dangerous materials' just lying around ... some under rusty lock and key ... but without 'real security'.

Is anyone surprised that such materials have proliferated from 'central control' to the rulers of many minor fiefdoms.

The global question is - how to establish positions where major takes control of minor ... which implies minors enjoying standards that put 'quality' into local lives.

lchic - 03:37pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14826 of 14863)
Truth outs in the end : truth has to be morally forcing : build on truth it's a strong foundation

..' as per usual ' .... suggests that the 'k' moniker is a recent acquisition of a former regular poster .... so who did you used to be?

klsanford0 - 03:37pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14827 of 14863)

WRC:

"The Bush plan--being promulgated for the alleged benefit of US citizens--is what we're discussing, not BMD for other nations."

The thread Title and Header do not specify this....and your comment allows you to elide the rational point that if this MD program is so valueless in its current configuration, why are so many other nations pursuing the generally similar MD goals right now?...in fact the MD idea is catching on worldwide, isn't it..? More and more countries want this technology every day....

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