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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 - 10:55am Dec 25, 2002 EST (# 7020 of 7037)

Diffusion

Ink on blotting paper
or
ink in a glass of water ... diffuses

So do ideas

That so much of the cultures of the world are common within time periods is acknowledgment to this.

Sometimes 'war' is diffused

Othertimes 'peace'

So the question for 2003 is how to diffuse peace across the globe.

What are the common factors that enable peace?

These will relate to good leadership, a common expectation, the availability of the means to existence, a blueprint of National Law, and the continual education - and revision of - to grow people's understanding.

Everyone needs their niche with opportunities for an improved future ... and folks in general are optimistic.

lunarchick - 10:58am Dec 25, 2002 EST (# 7021 of 7037)

http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk19.html

lunarchick - 11:19am Dec 25, 2002 EST (# 7022 of 7037)

Don't speak for others

Let them speak for themselves

allows a 'voice' for those wanting to take their place in the world

So if we 'listen' to the 'voice' of the general population in Iraq, Iran, and North Korea .... what are they saying - what do we hear?

lunarchick - 11:30am Dec 25, 2002 EST (# 7023 of 7037)

http://www.darwinday.org/

robkettenburg01 - 12:08pm Dec 25, 2002 EST (# 7024 of 7037)

Play "Find the Boeing Jumbo Jet!"

Muslims Suspend Laws of Physics!

The Matrix Document

The truth the media is forbidden to tell you

The Congressional Record of Testimony for the Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing Damage Analysis

RobKettenburg

mazza9 - 03:41pm Dec 25, 2002 EST (# 7025 of 7037)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Robert:

What a foolish "thought question!" On a recent CSPAN program a professor of international relations spoke of the history of Korea and how it 500+ years of cultural underpinnings support the bellicose statements of North Korea. You refer to movies, how about "The Godfather?" Are they making you an offer you can't refuse? The mechanism alluded to in that phrase was, of course, terrorism. Or as I suggested previously from the movie, History of the World" "Hump or Die!" Notice, the similarity with the "Mother of All Battles" statments by our other resident dictator, Saddam!

Shall we withdraw our troops? Why not give them Alaska as well as the oil therein as appeasement? How about Australia, Haiwaii and California. These states are Pacific bound and proper tribute to the thugs of Pyongyang? Why stop there? Maybe they'd like a piece of Checkeslovakia and Poland and well, maybe you get the point?

Isn't it sad that on the day we should be celebrating the birth of the Prince of Peace we must contend with bellicose thugs.

manjumicha - 05:03pm Dec 25, 2002 EST (# 7026 of 7037)

mazza:

Prince of Peace was never born on December 25...rather it was a date conveniently chosen to coincide with the pagan festival that the "converted" Rome still held on to....the commericalism rampant during the modern christmas in US would have made the early christians puke with disgust.......just another sad example of your self-distorted reality.

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