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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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cantabb - 11:26am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15350 of 15354)

rshow55 - 10:32am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15348 of 15349)

The problem is more than personal.

Certainly including the human interaction involving me, the government, and The New York Times.

Doesn't all this amount to a 'personal' problem, rather than anything to do with MD ?

A continued imposition on this thread ! And continued abuse of posting privilege !

rshow55 - 10:36am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15349 of 15349)

If you're trying to get kids to learn to tie their shoes - you can't avoid repetition.

I think most of us are long past that stage, Mr. Rogers ! [Note, most of us -- I see a few here still struggling with it].

On negotiation - there are basic lessons that lchic and I care about - and rightly so - that are matters of life and death - that we're trying to get across. We have hopes it might work.

No negotiation on anything is likely to be successful IF the communication between the parties (or at least one party) remains diffused, obtuse and cryptic -- and on issues NEVER specifically defined, with obscure goals .

Speaking of work - lchic and I aren't the only ones who've done a lot of work on this thread..... so I suppose the NYT cares what happens here - and respects it some.

"[A] lot of work" on WHAT ? Certainly not MD !

A newspaper may care and comment on all kinds of issues, BUT it's generally NOT the one doing the negotiations or responsible for them.

And, as to your role on matters as sensitive as MD, you depend ONLY on information already in the public domain, and don't even have access to classied information, let alone the needed security clearance.

A newspaper that has 'some respect' for your work wouldn't ban you several times from its forums, would it, as someone familiar with the MD history mentioned here ?

cantabb - 11:28am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15351 of 15354)

Read "classified information" in the penultimate sentence.

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