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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 - 06:48pm Nov 11, 2002 EST (# 5593 of 5651)
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.

The model is simple enough to use - and for everyone involved there are high payoff options associated with getting through the inspections - - and nothing but chaos, tragedy and loss associated with war.

Sometimes people do have to fight - and fighting is worth it.

This IS NOT such a time.

There's another BIG COST to decisions that get war - is is the cost of chaos - in a situation both fragile and very complicated - a cost to absolutely everyone involved.

After a lot of effort and hassle, and a lot of good will on the part of a lot of nations - we've got to a point where a set of actions could be good for essentially everybody involved - and good for the future prosperity and justice of the world.

We shouldn't blow it.

Even if Saddam and Iraq are stupid and venal enough to choose war now - I'm glad the Security Council negotiations occurred - at the worst -they've defined a lot - and laid the groundwork for progress.

But if Iraq, Russia and some other countries are sane - - we can make much more progress than that.

almarst2002 - 07:05pm Nov 11, 2002 EST (# 5594 of 5651)

Robert,

I think you and, unfortunatly, most westerners, value their valet and personal well-being much higher then sence of honor.

lunarchick - 07:07pm Nov 11, 2002 EST (# 5595 of 5651)

strategy

Kennedy Paul (ed.), Grand Strategies in War and Peace

Kennedy Paul, Preparing for the Twentieth Century, New York, Vintage Books, 1994.

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dcc3a/syl_gfir306.html

http://www.stratisc.org/pub/biblio_Bibliographie3_8.html

strategy - nuclear

http://www.stratisc.org/pub/biblio_Bibliographie3_17.html

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2002/gaddis.html

lunarchick - 07:20pm Nov 11, 2002 EST (# 5596 of 5651)

Sense of Honor/Honour

honor | http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=honour

almarst2002 - 07:28pm Nov 11, 2002 EST (# 5597 of 5651)

"In the aftermath of September 11, George W Bush's adviser on foreign affairs, Condoleezza Rice, asked senior staff at the National Security Council to think seriously about "how do you capitalise on these opportunities" in order to change US foreign policy. The answer was a strategy that would formalise America's role as the world's most powerful rogue state - like a well-armed vigilante, acting in its own interests and outside of the law, alone where necessary and with others where possible. In this context, with America heading at breakneck speed to the conclusion that it could and should impose its will unilaterally on the rest of the world, forcing it to the UN's negotiating table applied an important brake." - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,837624,00.html

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