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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 - 11:48am Feb 10, 2003 EST (# 8791 of 8792)
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NATO Rift Widens Over Defense of Turkey in Case of Iraq War By STEVEN R. WEISMAN with TERENCE NEILAN http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/international/worldspecial/10cnd-dipl.html

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — France, Germany and Belgium opened a division within NATO today by blocking proposals to increase Turkey's defenses in case of a war on Iraq, a move that the United States said called the alliance's credibility into question.

The alliance needs to consider what it is - what it stands for - and how subordinate the other members are to the United States. Arrogance matters -- a nation state that holds others in contempt weakens itself, because other nation states have real power -- individually and collectively and Ameicans, supported by "respectable" institutions, can forget this -- vitiating US power.

There is an organized body of US opinion - allied with the Bush administation - that expresses itself in FLYING INTO TURBULENCE by Peter Martin http://www.intellnet.org/news/articles/peter.martin.flying.into.turbulence.html - - a piece that I cited last year a number of times - because it seems to me that the members of NATO ought to consider what it means - and the degree to which it needs to be attended to. The piece includes some statements about fluid mechanics, and "innovation" - that are false - but the attitude, it seems to me - ought to interest people concerned about what the US military-industrial complex stands for. Some good things, no doubt. But in my view, the attitude shown in FLYING INTO TURBULENCE by Peter Martin http://www.intellnet.org/news/articles/peter.martin.flying.into.turbulence.html is cause for concern.

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