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Missile Defense

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 - 04:52pm Dec 26, 2002 EST (# 7056 of 7058)
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.

Yes, and changed how - under what circumstances - and by what means?

For example - I think a lot of things that have happened in the Southern Baptist Convention are ugly. On the basis of clear assumptions. According to the ideas of "disciplined beauty" - these doings may be beautiful in some ways, according to some assumptions yet ugly in terms of other assumptions. Aesthetic judgements are personal - though a lot of people agree on them - and it seems to me that making the reasons for aesthetic judgements clear can be interesting.

I like the idea of examining the doings in the Southern Baptist convention - - some doings by "Mayberry Machiavellis" - - as an example of the kinds of discussions one could have about Islamic religious doings, as well - - a blow by blow history of Southern Baptist teachings, in the last thirty years - might be a very interesting analogy to a blow-by-blow analysis of changes in Islamic teachings and practices since 1900.

There have been some.

rshow55 - 04:59pm Dec 26, 2002 EST (# 7057 of 7058)
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.

A blow by blow discussion of the doctrine and rationale of missile defense would be interesting, too.

Frances Fitzgerald, a Pulitzer winner, could set out a lot of that well, much written up in her Way Out There in the Blue (Simon and Schuster) .

Applying the standards Americans apply to themselves to the Islamic world might be a very interesting alternative to military options. There are people around to do the work - it would take money - but a lot less than DOD wastes.

It might be a great investment in peace, and in Secular Redemption http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b085/391 .

There are uses of internet resources that haven't been enough considered by leaders. Some discussed before on this thread. Some others are fairly simple. Approaches that might be useful to Saddam - as a responsible leader - or Kim as a responsible leader - or Bush as a responsible leader - or other leaders, too.

We need to get some things sorted out. Wars offer ways to do some things - but not everything we need to do. And there are other alternatives.

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