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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
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lchic
- 09:22am Sep 21, 2002 EST (#
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Supports my point that there has been more than one 'voice'
under the Al-mar-st-2000 label.
""It was simple give-and-take about `what did you mean
when you said this and why is that particular phrase here and
not there?' " an administration official said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/international/middleeast/21PREX.html
Not so according to TheIndependentLondon
"" White
House officials were optimistic afterwards that Russian
readiness to keep talking was a sign that ... Mr Putin again
told Mr Bush that the priority was to secure the fastest
possible deployment of UN inspection and monitoring missions.
The disagreement is the greatest test yet of the new
rapprochement between the former Cold War superpower
adversaries .... Another possible carrot is an assurance
that Russia will be allowed its share of the economic
windfall, especially in the oil sector, for foreign interests
in a post-Saddam Iraq, and that it will be compensated for
debts owed by the ousted regime.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=335219
lchic
- 09:41am Sep 21, 2002 EST (#
4458 of 4462)
President spells out new, bellicose philosophy for US
No less striking is its language, straight forward to the
point of bluntness. Mr Bush, according to The New York Times,
told his staff the document "had to be written in plain
English 'because the boys in Lubbock ought to be able to
understand it'."
"to convince or compel"
new buzzword is "counterproliferation" – a concept
embracing everything from missile defence programmes and
military strikes to taking out threatening weapons facilities
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=335218
American tactic for the no-fly zones is to break Iraq's
communications infrastructure rather than simply hit
air-defence stations.
Interestingly, Iraq showed its awareness of the need to
defuse other possible pretexts for war by abruptly dropping a
surcharge on oil exports on the same day as it welcomed the
inspectors. For the past two years it has been demanding an
under-the-table 15-30 cents per barrel from its customers, as
a way of bypassing the tight strictures of the UN's
oil-for-food programme. Within a day of Iraq's dual
announcements, oil sales surged back after having dwindled,
ruinously, to a third of normal levels earlier this month.
But Iraq's fellow-Arabs are bending a receptive ear to
America's belated charm offensive. Although the move was
overshadowed by news from Iraq, the announcement by the
so-called Quartet (America, Russia, the European Union and the
UN) of a three-phase plan to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, seemed aimed at soothing Arab fears that this issue
is being ignored. The road map is vague, but it represents a
first sign that America might pursue George Bush's commitment
last year to the creation of a Palestinian state.
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1337981
“There
could be nothing better than getting rid of Saddam,” says
Samir Kadi, a Lebanese engineer, “It's just that, until now,
America has seemed to want to make enemies of everyone.”
Gu Talk Thread || '42 Out of 367 Threads Are About Bush.
Do Europeans Have a Bush Fetish?' International - 21/9/02
02:37pm
lchic
- 09:53am Sep 21, 2002 EST (#
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SURVEY: AMERICA'S WORLD ROLE
Present at the creation
Jun 27th 2002 From The Economist print edition
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1188839
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