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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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rshow55
- 09:48am Jan 29, 2003 EST (#8300
of 8300) 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.
Can Iraq, or any other Islamic nation, do exactly
what the Bush administration hopes - in exactly the way that
is being asked?
There are religous aspects to the question, but some even
more basic ones, as well.
People are afraid - more afraid than they like to admit
- and whenever they are being asked to do things very
different from the things they are used to doing - whenever
they are asked to depart from the social usages that they
expect, and others expect of them - people are afraid for good
reasons.
Are we asking Iraqis to do things that, as human beings,
they can reasonably be asked to do?
If people recognized those reasons more clearly - a great
deal might be sorted out. Could it be that Iraq, within
its limits - is trying hard to accomodate the UN? There
certainly is evidence on that side.
I certainly agree that "regime change" is going to be
necessary in Iraq. But the question of what reasonable changes
may be seems open, still - not just to me, but to other
people.
Could we find ways to meet our needs that dealt with
their limitations as well? Is war the best answer to
that question?
If it is, it would have to be a war fought with more
understanding than the Bush administration seems to be
showing, it seems to me.
Cooper, I like the idea of going to Chicago - and I'm
thinking maybe we could meet Saturday. Perhaps in a museum, or
some other well lighted place, to start with. But I do
have some concerns. Whether you happen to like them or not.
I'll be writing you by the end of the day - - I will say this
- I'll only go down to Chicago if I have your phone number -
and both my wife and I have talked to you over the phone. I
have a number of things I have to think about. One is, what
you are trying to prove?
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