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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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almarst2002 - 04:56pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (# 8834 of 8836)

Germany: Tape doesn't link Iraq, al Qaida - http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030212-121824-9534r

Is it the Germany was chosen to play a role of a small child pointing to the "Naked King"?

How come the so many people could listen to the recent Powell's speaches with such a stright faces?

"its about REGIME CHANGE ... no, its about WMD ... sorry, we mean Ben Ladden ... or isn't it really about what all the rest of the World think?

rshow55 - 05:27pm Feb 12, 2003 EST (# 8835 of 8836)
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.

The Emperor's New Clothes is a profound story.

It says a lot about what it means to be a human being - and how critical (and how important) it is to ask for actual checking. If the Germans would insist on more of it - the world would be a much better - more prosperous place.

The NYT Missile Defense thread is intended as a prototype showing what - with proper resources - could be done to make the world more orderly, more symmetrical, more harmonious in human terms.

Power is personal - for that reason, it makes sense to know how power holders, and people close to them, actually think. I feel that if the leaders and key staffs of other nations understood gisterme better, and made clearer, more informed judgements about how qualified and worthy gisterme and his subordinates were to make life-and-death decisions for their countries, we'd have a better chance. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/407

8368 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9894 links to 680 postings by gisterme prior to restarting of this thread on March of this year. All these posts are available by date at http://www.mrshowalter.net/calendar1.htm

Each of these links connects to 20 links on the MD thread by gisterme:

8370 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9896

8371 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9897

8372 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9900

8373 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9899

8374 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9900

8375 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9901

8376 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9902

8378 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9904

8379 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.uaTva39V3ha.335091@.f28e622/9905

All these posts are available, either by links here, or by date at http://www.mrshowalter.net/calendar1.htm

376 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/408

We have a mess. It is in the interest of the whole world that it be fixed. By now, it can't be fixed, reasonably, without some leaders of other nation states asking questions - and insisting on answers.

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