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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 - 04:38pm Feb 7, 2003 EST (# 8679 of 8682)
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.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_3000s/3151new.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_3000s/3156.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_3000s/3365new.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_3000s/3481fmAug4.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_3000s/3998.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_4000s/4472.htm

WHEN THE FOUNDATIONS ARE SHAKING by James Slatton http://www.mrshowalter.net/sermon.html is a call to care -and judgement.

I hope the President, and those around him, exercise due care - with regard to all the consequences - and consider the human costs of what they are doing. I'm not sure that they are being unwise - and they do appear, in at least some significant ways, to be acting carefully. It is important for them to be right - and to listen to objections and weight them.

lchic - 04:39pm Feb 7, 2003 EST (# 8680 of 8682)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Iraq - PLAYING THE GAME

COMPLEX

"This often requires the need to take into account not only technical, but also cultural differences."

COOPERATION

US, allies to stage war games | From correspondents in Washington | February 08, 2003

"" THE United States will next week stage computerised war games with Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany and NATO which the Defence Department has emphasised are not linked to Iraq.

The Multinational Limited Objective Experiment (MNLOE2) exercise, to be held from February 10-28, would focus on improving multi-national information sharing, the Pentagon said in a statement.

Joint Forces Command spokeswoman Commander Sandra Irwin said an imaginary scenario on the Pacific rim had been created for the exercises and that there was "no connection with Iraq or North Korea".

"One goal is to improve the systems currently being used for information sharing among our coalition partners in order to design and build systems for the future," said the Pentagon statement.

"This often requires the need to take into account not only technical, but also cultural differences."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5953863%5E1702,00.html

Administration raised the national terror alert from yellow to orange, the second-highest level in the color-coded system overnight

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5953849%5E401,00.html

Iraq to expose Powell 'lies'

explained that the new facility was for "horizontal tests which technically cannot be used for long-range missiles

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5953850%5E401,00.html

rshow55 - 04:48pm Feb 7, 2003 EST (# 8681 of 8682)
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.

Everything we hold dear depends on reasonable decisions - decisions that make human sense. Even religions have to be asked to meet human needs - as they change . . . . .

IDEAS & TRENDS O Ye of Much Faith! A Triple Dose of Trouble http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/weekinreview/02GOOD.html By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

This is a rare moment in history, like a planetary alignment: three world religions simultaneously racked by crisis.

"The National Security Strategy of the United States," http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/politics/20STEXT_FULL.html sets out some admirable objectives, but it insists that the whole world accomodate modernity on OUR terms.

We'd better figure out how we, and other nations, are to do it together, as we are, in ways that meet our needs and limitations.

A lot of people have been trying and failing to deal with these issues for a long time. If it were otherwise, Vietnam and a lot else would have gone very differently. Good intentions - especially parochial good intentions - aren't always enough.

Are we right to be confident that an invasion of Iraq will improve our situation now - compared to the option of giving the inspections, and associated negotiations, more time?

I don't know if we'll get right answers -if the Bush administration will choose well. I believe they will try. I also believe that the discussions - and promises - that the US makes in the course of the Security Council deliberations will make whatever happens occur significantly more safely - and with more positives and fewer losses than might otherwise have occurred.

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