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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?

Read Debates, a new Web-only feature culled from Readers' Opinions, published every Thursday.


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bluestar23 - 09:39am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17240 of 17271)

"Casey told me ( with a threatening, merry glint in his eye ) that it was "easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission."

Oh, no.....I feel worried when I hear statements like this...it was "easier to LIE than it is to tell the truth.."

cantabb - 09:40am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17241 of 17271)

fredmoore - 08:48am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17233 of 17237)

Barntabb, Is that steam I see coming out of your ears?

No, that’s the barnyard you have been in.

Your arrogations point to your lack of comprehension.

Parroting again? Or Covering up your another deficiency: comprehension

Let's hear you say C*ck-a-preposterous-irregardless-doodle-do. One more time now ...

Barnyard-schoolyard Freddie “muster” moore speaking ?

Moore is less and less – Never thought possible!

lchic - 09:41am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17242 of 17271)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Common Provision / soldier - the need for - Krugman


bluestar23 - 09:42am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17243 of 17271)

"So I can actually act"

What do you specifically mean? Just state what this "action" will be and everyone will try to understand....

bluestar23 - 09:43am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17244 of 17271)

WAR AND ECONOMIES: A timely reminder from a while back:

The war in the Persian Gulf could end within weeks, but what if it drags on? Many people assume that a protracted war will deepen the current recession, delaying the US recovery from late 1991 to mid-1992 and raising the peak unemployment rate from 7.5 per cent to as much as 9 per cent.

The lesson of history, however, is that wars cause booms not recessions.

Every US war in this century has been associated with rapid growth and falling unemployment.

The economic costs of war - primarily inflation - came after the peace treaties. Military conflict is awful, but it need not result in economic disaster."

Who produced this gem of politico-economic insight? Step forward ... Paul Krugman, long-running prophet of wartime economic collapse. (The column ran in the Sunday Herald, February 3, 1991.) Maybe he'll explain in a future column how things have changed in a decade.

bluestar23 - 09:45am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17245 of 17271)

Former Enron Advisor Paul Krugman accepted $50,000 from Enron to pump the Company....

cantabb - 09:45am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17246 of 17271)

lchic - 09:19am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17237 of 17237)

'Mr Poster' himselves - see Sctoll down to exhibit 30 and click -

What can I say about "himselves" ? You're talking Freddiemoore; he'd have a rationalization for you petty soon.

"Sctoll" - a typo we all have more than our share. I understand, while looking for what "himselves" look like......

Coherence is the among the first to go ... but this one was long gone !

:)

fredmoore - 09:46am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17247 of 17271)

Barntabb the delusional arrogater.

See, I can demolish you in just 2 lines. You miss the point in 9.

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