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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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lunarchick - 07:09am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6421 of 6435)

USA foreign policy (that the Parliament ought but doesn't have) seems to have been run by 'the agency' over past half century.

Whose drive has been to put the 'right-conservative-traditionalists' in the seats of power with their Yesterday policies and literally 'KILL OFF' the progressives and prevent advancement and renewal!

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/10/opinion/10KRIS.html

lunarchick - 07:14am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6422 of 6435)

FISK

lunarchick - 07:16am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6423 of 6435)

Sons of Star Wars use Brit-Silos

lunarchick - 08:07am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6424 of 6435)

Iraq

almarst2002 - 08:54am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6425 of 6435)

How did Iraq get its weapons? - http://www.sundayherald.com/27572

almarst2002 - 10:29am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6426 of 6435)

A new US poll shows that the world is falling out of love with America -http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,856481,00.html

almarst2002 - 10:35am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6427 of 6435)

The United States will sell weapons to the Algerian government for the first time, a senior U.S. official said Monday, despite earlier reservations about its record on human rights. - http://www.iht.com/articles/79694.html

Nothing new under the (dark side of the) Moon.

commondata - 10:53am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6428 of 6435)

Debate: MediaLens asks Monbiot:

Can you explain why you would prioritise the support of such a war [in Iraq] ahead of a war to remove the Algerian generals.

http://www.monbiot.com/

almarst2002 - 11:40am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6429 of 6435)

"For powerful countries to adopt a principle of preventative war may well set an example that can have catastrophic consequences." (Jimmy Carter ) - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2561767.stm

almarst2002 - 11:44am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6430 of 6435)

Whatever the Case, America Will Have Its War - http://english.pravda.ru/world/2002/12/10/40632.html

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