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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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rshow55 - 10:20am Sep 21, 2002 EST (# 4460 of 4462)
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 we're "reshaping the world" http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1188839 - we better not botch it - and I hope Putin, and some other world leaders ask enough questions, and well enough balanced, and forceful enough questions, so that some reasonable balances are established and maintained.

And I hope Democrats ask sensible questions, too.

The NYT is influential - and Bill Keller has shown it today (and in the magazine tomorrow).

The New Jersey Ethicist By BILL KELLER http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/opinion/21KELL.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

" Allow me to quote my favorite moral philosopher, Karl Rove. Remember what he told Republican candidates back in June? "Focus on war." (O.K., he's no troubadour, but the man gets to the point.) D'you think he meant, "Let's all focus on the war and have a moment of silence and feel blue?" Of course not, knucklehead, he meant, "Take the war, and run the wussy Democrats into the ground with it."

An extremely interesting piece on Wolfowitz: The Sunshine Warrior by BILL KELLER http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/22/magazine/22WOLFOWITZ.html

There are some voices for reason, and going slowly in Congress, but few enought that people all over the world ought to be concerned.

Some in Congress, Recalling Vietnam, Oppose War By CARL HULSE http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/politics/21PEAC.html

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