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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 - 01:27am Dec 29, 2002 EST (# 7112 of 7118)

World War One started 1914

The family sizes at that time often included a dozen children

World War One ended 1918

Many Family gatherings no longer included Males aged 18 - 36 years

Many European children had a lot of Aunts and Great Aunts ~ unpaired Spinsters

WWI denied many people their-own family life!

lunarchick - 06:19am Dec 29, 2002 EST (# 7113 of 7118)

Iraq http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.3ba79c96/0 Guardian Talk International

Letter From a Young Iraqi

Started by lorre at 04:24pm Dec 28, 2002 GMT

"Now there is talk of another war. Oh god! My one dream in life is that one day Iraq can wipe this thing called war from its memory. I do not want an Iraqi child to go to sleep in fear or to think that life under sanctions and fear of an attack has become normal."

http://www.newsandletters.org/

lunarchick - 06:21am Dec 29, 2002 EST (# 7114 of 7118)

"" "If one learns anything from living under a totalitarian system it is how to decipher the news and sift through official propaganda. When I was in Iraq, my parents always got our news from other sources than those fed to us by the Iraqi regime. Later when we lived in the U.S., we knew that what we heard on the news regarding Iraq was not true. Contact with our family revealed to us what was actually happening.

from above

rshow55 - 10:02am Dec 29, 2002 EST (# 7115 of 7118)
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.

I think the Week in Review is beautiful today, and I feel that Secretary Powell's words below are very, very well measured, responsible, and hopeful.

Powell: U.S. Prepared to Wait Months on N.Korea By REUTERS Filed at 8:36 a.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-korea-north-powell.html

Though under certain circumstances military action may be necessary earlier than he says - and he's certain to know it. Sometimes force is the right answer. Usually not, though.

I had a very good talk with lunarchick last night - and she made a very good suggestion - request. It amounted to this.

Could I review what I'd done, especially in interation with the New York Times and the Guardian, and especially on this thread, to set out what I was trying to do - and support my claim that I've been intentionally working to get some key issues focused and solved? Rather than just flopping around at random or semi-random?

I'm afraid to do it, but will try to do it well. It's going to take time, and it is an anxious job.

One reason I'm afraid is technical. And a good reason for other people to be afraid, in similar situations.

almarst2002 - 10:02am Dec 29, 2002 EST (# 7116 of 7118)

lunarchick 12/29/02 6:21am

I feel the same.

I sense here a very deadly mix of ignorance, arrogance, narcisizm, herd mentality, cowardice and brutality coupled with extream power.

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