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    Missile Defense

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 - 04:44pm Sep 21, 2002 EST (# 4472 of 17697)
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 - and are being asked to do so . . . . .

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.

In key cases, crises centered on the need to accomodate modernity . "The National Security Strategy of the United States," http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/politics/20STEXT_FULL.html insists that the whole world accomodate modernity as well. We'd better figure out how to do it. A lot of people have been trying and failing to do so for a long time. If it were otherwise, Vietnam and a lot else would have gone very differently.

Some crisis situations have been of deep concern for a long time. My own life was much influenced by government people, including Bill Casey, who were terrified of nuclear weapons. (click rshow55 above for details.)

In 1974, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk said this:

" I still believe myself that one nuclear power is too many . . . if we could find some way to deal with the problem of verification, I today would strongly support going right back to zero nuclear weapons, because in terms of the safety of the American people it is obvious to me that we are much less safe today than we were before these wretched weapons ever came into existence."

In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote this:

" Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time."

Foundations are shaking, and it seems to me a good time to repost a sermon given by James Slatton, the pastor of my parents's church - a church similar, theologically, to the one President Jimmy Carter attends - - When the foundations are shaking http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/sermon.html

lchic - 04:53pm Sep 21, 2002 EST (# 4473 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Three world religions ....

Religion is an 'individual' matter

Religion was hi-jacked to become a thought control 'power' mechanism

Religion is a fundraiser-source of wealth for power mechanisms

Religion has to be camelion and move with changing environments - the hi-jack variety often doesn't ... leading to HELL-on-EARTH too often.

lchic - 05:31pm Sep 21, 2002 EST (# 4474 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Tyrinnicide: http://www.tzemach.org/fyi/docs/beres/saddam.htm,br>



Geoffrey ROBERTSON (Ldn/Aussie QC) has a feature in 'The Australian' (Newscorp) putting the case for an assisted tyrannicide.

"Nice one Geoffo!"

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