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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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lchic - 04:07pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14836 of 14863)
Truth outs in the end : truth has to be morally forcing : build on truth it's a strong foundation

stong/strong

says that 'words matter'

perhaps you're a journalist

what's the term --- STRINGER --- HACK !?

Someone paid for verbage

lchic - 04:09pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14837 of 14863)
Truth outs in the end : truth has to be morally forcing : build on truth it's a strong foundation

Reflecting on the mood of the International Headers - Guardian Talk


rshow55 - 04:24pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14838 of 14863)
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.

New York Review of Books Volume 50, Number 16 · October 23, 2003 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16677

Review Eyeless in Iraq By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

. America Unbound: The Bush Revolutionin Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay Brookings Institution Press,227 pp., $22.95

. The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment edited by Fred I. Greenstein Johns Hopkins University Press, 314 pp., $55.00; $19.95 (To be published in November.)

" 1. President George W. Bush has made a fatal change in the foreign policy of the United States. He has repudiated the strategy that won the cold war—the combination of containment and deterrence carried out through such multilateral agencies as the UN, NATO, and the Organization of American States. The Bush Doctrine reverses all that. The essence of our new strategy is military: to strike a potential enemy, unilaterally if necessary, before he has a chance to strike us.

" Mr. Bush has replaced a policy aimed at peace through the prevention of war by a policy aimed at peace through preventive war.

And the preventative wars have been very badly handled from many - many points of view - to an extent that is almost surreal.

lchic - 04:28pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14839 of 14863)
Truth outs in the end : truth has to be morally forcing : build on truth it's a strong foundation

Democracy is the only protection we have against despotic and arbitrary government, and this story is deeply disturbing.

Imagine if you will that you are a political interest group that wishes to control forevermore the levers of power. Imagine further that you know you are likely to implement a highly unpopular political agenda, and you do not wish to be removed by a ballot driven backlash.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm

klsanford0 - 04:33pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14840 of 14863)

Showalter thinks that the UN and the hilarious "Organization of American States" (the mighty powers of Barbados, etc.) actually helped win the Cold War...??? The UN sat on the sidelines and did nothing ....the reference to the OAS is merely laughable...

lchic - 04:36pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14841 of 14863)
Truth outs in the end : truth has to be morally forcing : build on truth it's a strong foundation

Showalter thinks

    that the COLD WAR isn't over
There was no END GAME in place.

That's what he's said on this board.

lchic - 04:38pm Oct 12, 2003 EST (# 14842 of 14863)
Truth outs in the end : truth has to be morally forcing : build on truth it's a strong foundation

No comment on post 14839 from 'K'

Did you click and read - 'It's a mighty interesting post'

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