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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 - 07:08pm Dec 8, 2002 EST (# 6374 of 6377)
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 the Saudi's do not control Al Queda , perhaps they, and we, should consider the Golden Rule .

What, with powers reversed, and injuries reversed, would they do to us under such circumstances?

When the US government put a price on Bin Laden's head - there was no response. What would have happened if the Saudi's had actively endorsed bringing Bin Laden to justice? The question comes close to answering itself. The Saudis, by virtue of their oil, now own Islam, when it matters on issues like this. We have a right to hold them responsible.

It seems to me that, since they insist on such homogeneity - we have a right to hold them all responsible.

rshow55 - 08:24pm Dec 8, 2002 EST (# 6375 of 6377)
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.

We're in "interesting times" - - and with care, many key stories might have happy endings.

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But for "intersting stories" - just a small change can make the difference between happy endings, and horror.

'Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century' by ROBERT S. McNAMARA and JAMES G. BLIGHT http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/books/chapters/29-1stmcnam.html bears careful reading, with emotions and analyticial capacities both working at adult levels.

We have a chance to reduce the risks of conflict, killing, and catastrophy now - if leaders work thought the problems before them sensibly now.

For many of the problems we face, it is vital that we learn to check facts - and do it better than we have in the past. Missile Defense, the central subject of this thread - would be a good place to work out all the conventions required for doing a much better job than is being done today. Patterns of collecting and connecting the dots, discussed on this thread, can help.

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lunarchick - 08:46pm Dec 8, 2002 EST (# 6376 of 6377)

Noted above

'Iraq is not at threat to it's neighbours' ...

Yet it is a threat to some Iraqi people!

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A problem with terroristm is the failure of terrorists to recognise 'the end of the matter' as is clearly seen in Northern Ireland where rights were won long ago - and yet the madness in the minds persists.

Conflicts and wars that drag on have generational drag!

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The problem of Israel - USA
funding
The Butcher Sharon

Is beginning to be seen as a problem?

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