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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 - 09:20pm Oct 23, 2002 EST (# 5178 of 5187)
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.

U.S. Presents New Draft on Iraq Filed at 7:30 p.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-UN-Iraq.html

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Abruptly stepping up pressure for quick U.N. action, the United States distributed its tough new draft resolution on Iraq to the entire Security Council for the first time Wednesday but Russia immediately rejected it and said France and China were also opposed.

Some things are going wrong, again and again . .

4250 Wilson's Ghost rshow55 9/10/02 6:55am

These are key things to check if practical human arrangements are to be possible: 4251 rshow55 9/10/02 7:16am

666 There are basic human needs - and they are key STABILITY CONDITIONS. rshow55 3/18/02 12:13pm

We do have logic, and plenty of it - that can permit us to check things to a focus of high probability answers 668 lchic 3/18/02 12:51pm

We are special animals rshow55 3/18/02 1:01pm

Lchic's simple lines need to be understood, too. They are basic, and people who don't know them should.

Adults need secrets, lies, and fictions
To live within their contradictions.

So do children. So do we all. When things go wrong -- we need to look and think - even though it does not come naturally. The middle east is full of horrors that look unresolvable unless our simple humanity and fallibility is recognized - and, when it matters enough - decently dealt with.

We do need force - but not only that.

If the United States can't communicate its concerns to other nations well enough that key things are beyond a reasonable doubt - - then there are much more pressing problems than the approaching winter season in Iraq that we need to worry about.

lchic - 11:17pm Oct 23, 2002 EST (# 5179 of 5187)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

The take on Chetnya is that Russia was aiming to put in the basic structures with provisional government, later giving the population voting opportunities to accept and continue forward.

The Chetnyans (referred to as Terrorists by Ru) are not seemingly for basic evolution.

Raising the question - where are the coming from - what do they see as their strengths and powerbases?

Raising the further question - were they ever 'sold' the plan to put the above blue print in place.

Is it mainly a matter of too little 'shared space' and miscommunication?

If there is objection to Russia laying the foundations for the new state - perhaps Ru could move out and say .... say Germany/UN .. come in and put together the new jigsaw ... and them move out.

lchic - 12:22am Oct 24, 2002 EST (# 5180 of 5187)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Chechnya 1.25m mountain folk

1990-Dummies http://conflict.gq.nu/modern.htm

http://www.amina.com/article/icbrief.html

C18-C21 http://www.wdn.com/asf/cgi/ASFdbs.pl?&database=asfdocs_chechbp_num_sprivat&layout=noframe

C8-C21 http://www.benevolence.org/projects/chechnya/chtimeline.asp

PhotoHistory http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/grozny.htm

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?11@@.3ba765cf

lchic - 12:39am Oct 24, 2002 EST (# 5181 of 5187)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Brain - doorways

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992964

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