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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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rshow55 - 07:13pm Aug 29, 2002 EST (# 4010 of 4014) Delete Message
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.

I think Casey would have approved of my work arguing that

since our "missile defense" hardware won't work - we have to look at other options -- including interdiction.

since we can't defend against all alternatives - there are times when it will be necessary to make exceptions - - and deal with the challenges of interdiction - - problems and all.

I think I've been supportive, in some key ways, of the Bush administration's arguments for a "new doctrine of justified interdiction. "

With concerns about details involved both with justification and with interdiction .

Also, a concern about end games.

A problem Casey agonized about - and wanted me to get answered. I have some answers.

For stable solutions -- the kind we have to have -- we need to consider not only "the next inning" - but stability relationships set out in the golden rule in Berle's laws of power and in Maslow's heirarchy of needs.

Unstable solutions aren't solutions for long. We should know that by now.

rshow55 - 07:15pm Aug 29, 2002 EST (# 4011 of 4014) Delete Message
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.

(If some folks think I haven't been brave or direct enough, at all times -- put yourself in my position. Would you be? )

It might make great sense for me to just walk into Langley, and talk to anybody handy.

But CIA folks called me up, and they were very clear that they didn't want that to happen. They seemed pretty concerned about it.

rshow55 - 07:16pm Aug 29, 2002 EST (# 4012 of 4014) Delete Message
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.

Were the Republicans stupid to suggest this - and claim so much for it? Were they dishonest? Or does a reasonable explanation require more?

Few Exercise New Right to Leave Failing Schools By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/28/education/28CHOI.html

Maybe a lot of people get wrong answers, doing the best they can? Maybe a lot of people are stumped?

(And some other people claim they're stumped when it is convenient?)

Maybe the process of getting right answers, and the process of getting wrong answers, is usually the same - there is luck involved?

But maybe the amount of luck involved depends on how you check?

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