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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 - 02:25pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15284 of 15297)
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.

This is important:

Bush Urges Asian Nations to Support Plan to End Korea Crisis By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: October 20, 2003 Filed at 12:22 p.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Asian-Summit.html?hp

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- President Bush on Monday pushed for Asian support on a new overture to peacefully end a North Korean nuclear standoff that has cast a shadow over the region for more than a year.

A peaceful ending would be wonderful. And a historic achievement.

I'm working as hard and as carefully as I can, trying to produce a satisfactory response to some of Cantabb's earlier suggestions - in a proposal to the "top dog" at the NYT that he suggested I make. It seemed like a good suggestion when he made it, and seems, if anything, better now. When I think of the logical problems I'm having - just on my simple, low status, low priority problem of dealing with the NYT - I can see how the Bush administration can have its difficulties on the harder problems it faces.

All the same, I'm trying to do a proposal that would work as a model that the Bush administration - and other institutions and nations involved with the Korean problems - could actually learn from in ways that could be helpful. Whether I'll finish it in the next five hours, I don't know. Probably not. But it seems to me that the proposal is converging nicely, everything considered.

12486 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.kmMGbIDpQfY.0@.f28e622/14140 . . C.P. Snow speaks, in Science and Government , of

" . . the prime importance, in any crisis of action, of being positive what you want to do and able to explain it. It is not so relevant whether you are right or wrong. That is a second-order effect. But it is cardinal that you be positive."

I'm trying to check enough, enough ways - so that I'm positive of what I want to do - and able to explain it. Explain it, for example, to anybody involved with the UN who happened to be interested.

I'm hoping to be right enough , too. To have a good chance of that takes a lot of work - at least for me.

Lchic speaks well - and speaks well for me. We talk a lot - and she's a great summarizer - more incisive than I am. I appreciate her posts.

The very best missile defense this country could get would be stable disarmament agreements with the countries we now fear. For that stability - the agreements have to work for them, as well as for us.

I'm grateful for the chance I was given to post 15233-15240 and 15242-15245 yesterday.

Here's a point that may mean more to me than to others. Perhaps it is obvious to others. On tough jobs, it often helps to first solve them with emotional and social issues stripped away as much as possible. Just to get something that makes sense. But then every one of the human issues that actually matters has to be fit to the solution too.

Pardon me if I'm slow, and not always a welcome poster here.

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