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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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fredmoore - 07:09am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6719 of 6732)

The Pentagon debates PROPAGANDA push in Allied nations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/16/international/16MILI.html?pagewanted=2

I don't now ... you buy 'em the books, you send them to school .... and what do they do? They eat all the pages!

In word association tests, 9/10 people match PROPAGANDA with NAZI!

rshow55 - 07:19am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6720 of 6732)
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.

almarst2002 12/16/02 7:08am . . . is important.

"Honestly, I firmly believe, the US and its Citizens would look and behave in a dramatically different way if this country would be 1/10 of its current size and strenth. It would look for peaceful ways to settle the conflicts and problems. And it would have a defencive armed forces thinking on protecting its home.

There are many, many good things about the United States - and some of gisterme's ideas and ideals are good ones I agree with. But at the same time - the associations between the US military, and the CIA, and the NAZIS, both at the level of people, and the level of procedures, are too close for comfort. And the world would be safer if that was clearer - and knowledge of the problems more widely available.

almarst2002 - 07:27am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6721 of 6732)

fredmoore 12/16/02 7:09am - Pentagon Debates Propaganda Push in Allied Nations - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/16/international/16MILI.html?pagewanted=1

A TOTAL MORAL COLLAPSE.

almarst2002 - 07:29am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6722 of 6732)

hERE IS A CITATION - sruk2 "A Nation Challenged" 12/15/02 11:48pm

Argentina - 1890 - Troops sent to Buenos Aires to protect business interests.

Chile - 1891 - Marines sent to Chile and clashed with nationalist rebels.

Haiti - 1891 - American troops suppress a revolt by Black workers on United States-claimed Navassa Island.

Hawaii - 1893 - Navy sent to Hawaii to overthrow the independent kingdom - Hawaii annexed by the United States.

Nicaragua - 1894 - Troops occupied Bluefields, a city on the Caribbean Sea, for a month.

China - 1894-95 - Navy, Army, and Marines landed during the Sino-Japanese War.

Korea - 1894-96 - Troops kept in Seoul during the war.

Panama - 1895 - Army, Navy, and Marines landed in the port city of Corinto.

China - 1894-1900 - Troops occupied China during the Boxer Rebellion.

Philippines - 1898-1910 - Navy and Army troops landed after the Philippines fell during the Spanish-American War; 600,000 Filipinos were killed.

Cuba - 1898-1902 - Troops seized Cuba in the Spanish- American War; the United States still maintains troops at Guantanamo Bay today.

Puerto Rico - 1898 - present - Troops seized Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War and still occupy Puerto Rico today.

Nicaragua - 1898 - Marines landed at the port of San Juan del Sur.

Samoa - 1899 - Troops landed as a result over the battle for succession to the throne.

Panama - 1901-14 - Navy supported the revolution when Panama claimed independence from Colombia. American troops have occupied the Canal Zone since 1901 when construction for the canal began.

Honduras - 1903 - Marines landed to intervene during a revolution.

Dominican Rep 1903-04 - Troops landed to protect American interests during a revolution.

Korea - 1904-05 - Marines landed during the Russo-Japanese War.

Cuba - 1906-09 - Troops landed during an election.

Nicaragua - 1907 - Troops landed and a protectorate was set up.

Honduras - 1907 - Marines landed during Honduras' war with Nicaragua.

Panama - 1908 - Marines sent in during Panama's election.

Nicaragua - 1910 - Marines landed for a second time in Bluefields and Corinto.

Honduras - 1911 - Troops sent in to protect American interests during Honduras' civil war.

China - 1911-41 - Navy and troops sent to China during continuous flare-ups.

Cuba - 1912 - Troops sent in to protect American interests in Havana

Panama - 1912 - Marines landed during Panama's election.

Honduras - 1912 - Troops sent in to protect American interests.

Nicaragua - 1912-33 - Troops occupied Nicaragua and fought guerrillas during its 20-year civil war.

Mexico - 1913 - Navy evacuated Americans during revolution.

Dominican Rep 1914 - Navy fought with rebels over Santo Domingo.

Mexico - 1914-18 - Navy and troops sent in to intervene against nationalists.

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