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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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lchic - 06:36am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4040 of 4045)

Sigmund Freud, 1929 said

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty in exterminating one antoher to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

? Were the men of 1929 a smarter more intelligent breed than the right wing neo-conservatives who think they inherit the earth 2002?

lchic - 06:42am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4041 of 4045)

Michael Howard (1981) 'On fighting a nuclear war'

When I read the flood of scenarios ... I ask myself in bewilderment; this war they are describing, what is it about?
The defense of Western Europe? Acess to the [Persian} Gulf? The protection of Japan?

Almarst would enlighten him with the one word 'oil'

A second word 'greed' might be added .... how much money do the ElderBushBunch make from MD when cntracts start to flow?

Interesting to hear comment on USA radio regarding IranIraq war .... the USA had one aim ... to keep pumping in the destructive resources .... the net result - millions of people DIED!

kalter.rauch - 06:48am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4042 of 4045)
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And what about Iraq's aims....to continue it's death camps, it's torture centers, it's gas production......IT'S EVIL DESIGNS upon the rest of the world...and the greater glory of Sodom Hussy, of course!!!

lchic - 06:48am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4043 of 4045)

Russian street maps of Afghanistan .... wow it used to have streets! .... are being used to determine if 'refugees' are from where they say they are from - downUnder.

lchic - 06:53am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4044 of 4045)

The 'MONSTERS' of today seem to be the American creations of yesterday! (re K 6.48am)

Take a look at US Admin's foreign policy of C20 - that it was run by the Shadow to protect the Greed rights amd vested intersts looking to high oil/cash flows from black/gold seems to have stopped emergent democracy .... find the US involvement then see the outcome ... and see how disadvantage 'the people' have become.

Why not put GWB and SH in the sumo ring and let them go for it round after round after round --- let them knock the hell out of each other --- give others a break from being 'killed'!

kalter.rauch - 06:54am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4045 of 4045)
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DOI?!?!? Yes, Afghanstan used to have streets. It even had villages in the north until Russia wiped them off the face of the Earth.

WHAT is your ever-loving POINT, lchic, and WHAT does it POSSIBLY have the SLIGHTEST THING to do with MISSILE DEFENSE?!?!?

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