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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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kalter.rauch - 06:11am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3527 of 3545)
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The fact of the matter, lchic, is that it's too late for you and your ilk. Mobile battlefield microwave emitters mounted on Hum-Vees are a reality. Look it up if you wish...I DON'T CARE!!!

Very soon the US borders will be secure. You and your kind will scurry in pain back under the rocks you came from!!!

HAHAHA!!!!!!

wanderer85us - 07:58am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3528 of 3545)
You can't know your limits, until you push yourself to the limit.

Bush's "star wars" plan is insane.

lchic - 08:29am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3529 of 3545)

Saudi - significance of ?http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s642607.htm

lchic - 08:30am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3530 of 3545)

Saudi - significance of being shunned by 'stars' ?
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lchic - 08:37am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3531 of 3545)

Lewis Lapham

Interview with Lewis Lapham:
The influential editor of Harper's Magazine tells why the greatest threat to American society post September 11 comes from within. Lapham's views have seen him labelled by many as very un-American.
^{http://abc.net.au/foreign/comeup.htm}

Lapham thinks the COLD WAR should END !

The MONEY channelled into Defense should be vastly reduced!

Americans have to review their spending, foreign policy, and philosophy.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=lewis+lapham+harper&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=lewis+lapham+defence&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=lewis+lapham+cold+war&btnG=Google+Search

lchic - 08:47am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3532 of 3545)

The new wave - Democrats - Palestine
^{http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s637584.htm}

Israel - refusenick soldiers - don't want to work in the Occupied Territories
believe there is no military solution to the intifada
^{http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/}

lchic - 09:00am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3533 of 3545)

Israel - makes peace move - new plan

phased military withdrawals

lchic - 09:12am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3534 of 3545)

Suicide bombers - said by Psych to be kids who had experienced extreme trauma!

mazza9 - 09:47am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3535 of 3545)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

lchic:

I listen to the Palestinian apologists who seek to justify murder.

Rules of engagement are often exceeded and legal action is taken against the person who trasgresses.

When a Palestinian enters a civilian house and murders men women and children there is no justification. The Geneva Convention which is supposed to protect civilians is ignored.

The ABM treaty worked because both sides were willing to act in good conscience. Salt and its follow-ons have reduced nuclear arsenals in the Russia and the United States.

Until the barbaric regimes display civilied behavior they may receive civilized actions up to a point. Then let the bombs fall where they may, especially Iraq!

LouMazza

rshow55 - 10:08am Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3536 of 3545)

"Let the bombs fall where they may. . . ."

Maybe they should fall on YOUR house -- on the people YOU care about?

Mazza, talking to you a few nights ago, for hours, I had a good deal of sympathy for your humanity, in spots.

But I left wondering. Suppose the Nazis had won the war, and gotten away totally with the extermination of the jews. If one had had occasion to talk to some "old vets" -- who had been guards in the camps - - would their talk, or attitudes, have been so different from yours?

You are stragely comfortable with mass murder - indiscriminate murder - - so long as it is "our team" that does it.

When the "other team" does it -- how easy it is for you to be indignant, and judgemental, and morally superior.

Indiscriminant murder is ugly. America's willing to do it wholesale, and has done it wholesale.

That's ugly. When the Palestinians do it, it is also ugly.

But you have to count.

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