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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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gisterme - 09:34pm Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7236 of 7244)

manjumicha 1/2/03 4:23pm

"......the modern minuteman, a citizen soldier, the defender of feedom and honor....."

Is your memory short or what, manju? You're the one who was blustering about NKs shooting nuclear-armed cruise missiles at US ships in international waters from submersible launchers.

An anchient Chinese proverb says something like:

"Do not complain about the snow on your neighbor's doorstep while your own doorstep is yet unclean."

almarst2002 - 09:47pm Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7237 of 7244)

gisterme 1/2/03 9:34pm - "Do not complain about the snow on your neighbor's doorstep while your own doorstep is yet unclean."

Read it again... and again... and again.

Untill you get it, fully.

gisterme - 09:56pm Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7238 of 7244)

"...For complicated practical cases the "golden rule" has to be subject to qualifications, especially when it applies outside a group..."

That's the basis of the problem, Robert yet somehow you've missed the whole point. It's ignorance of and/or "qualifications" to the golden rule that have caused things to be so complicated in the first place.

There's nothing complicated about "treat others the way you want to be treated".

Take the NKs for example. We've already given them both our coat and our cloak. Do we now give them our life too? Even though the NKs have despitefully used America's good faith you don't yet hear the president threatening to obliterate them. They're the ones making the threats.

Kim Jong Il has aready arranged his own undoing. I doubt that there will be many tears shed for him once he becomes "undone". It seems more likely the NK people will be singing their equivalent of the Muchkins' "Hail, Hail, the Witch Is Dead" once that event has occured.

No doubt the reunification of the Koreas will provide ample grounds for the biggest party in their history.

almarst2002 - 10:11pm Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7239 of 7244)

Kosovo War and "Peace" - http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/war-peace.html

almarst2002 - 10:14pm Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7240 of 7244)

Stitching Together a New World Order - http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins99/tim99-11-4.html

gisterme - 10:20pm Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7241 of 7244)

almarst2002 1/2/03 9:47pm

"...Read it again... and again... and again.

Untill you get it, fully..."

If I didn't "get it" I wouldn't have posted it, Alex.

Perhaps you need to take your own advice.

almarst2002 - 10:22pm Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7242 of 7244)

There can't be a War on Terror. It's a logical impossibility. The US is one of the leading terrorist states in the world. The guys who are in charge right now were all condemned for terrorism by the World Court. They would have been condemned by the U.N. Security Council except they vetoed the resolution, with Britain abstaining of course. These guys can't be conducting a war on terror. It's just out of the question. They declared a war on terror 20 years ago and we know what they did. They destroyed Central America. They killed a million and a half people in southern Africa. We can go on through the list. So there's no 'War on Terror'. - http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2804

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