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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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bluestar23 - 08:05pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17198 of 17221)

After the Cuban Missile crisis, some attempt at the original "hot line" from USA to Russia began, Showalter must have missed it...it wasn't actually a telephone, but a telex link...

lchic - 08:05pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17199 of 17221)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

London | Australian PM John Howard unveils a memorial to Australians lost in World Wars.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7831672%5E28097,00.html

almarst2003 - 08:05pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17200 of 17221)

The Brits created all those worthy sheikhdoms in the Gulf. Kuwait was our doing; Saudi Arabia was ultimately a joint Anglo-US project, the United Arab Emirates (formerly the Trucial State) etc. But when Iran decided in the 1950s that it preferred Mohammed Mossadeq's democratic rule to the Shah's, the CIA's Kim Roosevelt, with Colonel "Monty" Woodhouse of MI6, overthrew democracy in Iran. Now President Bush demands the same "democracy" in present-day Iran and says we merely "excused and accommodated" the loathsome US-supported Shah's regime.

http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk11102003.html

WELL, DIDN'T WE DO THE SAME IN LATIN AMERICA? AND SEE MOM - NO TERRORRISTS ... YET.

lchic - 08:07pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17201 of 17221)
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IBM first linked computers through satellites in 1962

almarst2003 - 08:09pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17202 of 17221)

And Jesus said to the disciples, "Whenever you feel threatened, hunt thine enemies down one by one and destroy them." - http://www.counterpunch.org/rutledge11102003.html

lchic - 08:19pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17203 of 17221)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

This can't be right

''The idiot part comes in when I realize that he really believes what he is saying. This guy really believes that he is here to wipe out evil. The savant part--the genius--is found in how he gets so many otherwise intelligent people to cheer him on. '' (from link above)

so where lies truth

lchic - 08:26pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17204 of 17221)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Raises the question as to what is 'intelligence'

do individuals have

a 'peace quotient' of intelligence

a 'common sense quotient'

a 'wisdom quotient'

mmuskin - 08:27pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17205 of 17221)

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2003/3id-aar-jul03.pdf

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