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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 - 03:12pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (# 8831 of 8833)
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.

Here are articles connected to problems with "obvious" solutions that are now going badly:

The Other Korea http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/12/opinion/12WED2.html

It's hard to see how Washington can successfully manage the delicate nuclear weapons crisis with North Korea without close cooperation from South Korea.

News Analysis: Cracks in NATO Alliance By PATRICK E. TYLER http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/12/international/europe/12ALLI.html

EU Warns Iraq Rift May Disrupt Summit By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 1:23 p.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-EU-Iraq.html

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- EU leaders said the bitter divisions in NATO over Iraq could spill over into the European Union and warned on Wednesday of a ``deep crisis'' unless Europe finds a single voice on Iraq during a key summit next week.

``What is at stake is our determination to be heeded and to play a leading role on the world stage,'' said Prodi, who heads the EU's top executive body.

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``It seems hard to believe that this disunity... can reach a lower point,'' said Liberal Democrat leader Graham Watson. ``That will only provide comfort for Saddam Hussein.''

Hans-Gert Poettering, leader of the assembly's largest group-- the conservative People's party agreed.

``The European Union and NATO are facing a disaster. Europe offers a sorry picture,'' he said.

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And here is a brilliant and important suggestion - that could be very important if we want a difficult transition to occur - and occur with as much grace and legitimacy as possible.

Jordan Pressing U.S. to Offer Exile to Hussein By JOHN F. BURNS http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-EU-Iraq.html

AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 11 — Officials at high levels of Jordan's government say they are pressing the United States to offer President Saddam Hussein and perhaps 50 of his top aides a guarantee of safe haven elsewhere in the Arab world if they will quit power in Iraq.

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