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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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lunarchick - 03:16am Dec 17, 2002 EST (# 6770 of 17697)

Jayne goes with Tazan

They swing
through
international
jungle
untangling the vines
where others
just bungle!

lchic2002

lunarchick - 03:25am Dec 17, 2002 EST (# 6771 of 17697)

'The Poster' asks if one might be 'away for Christmas' ..

Poster i reside downUnder ... Home is 'Away' ...
Do we hear a 'please may i be excused' from the Poster
Next he'll be telling us
he knows Santa's toymaker ...

Does 'cobblers' cover it?
:)

kalter.rauch - 05:58am Dec 17, 2002 EST (# 6772 of 17697)
Earth vs <^> <^> <^>

bbbuck 12/16/02 11:52am

...what's the status on the anti-[communist] campaign?

Sehr Gut, Herr Oberst!!!

Sie Machiavellian Principle...Divide and Conquer UND Planting Seeds of Doubt in their midst ist proceeding most expeditiously, Mein Herr!!!

Sturm GEFAHR fur die Bolshevist Schweinerein!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

commondata - 06:34am Dec 17, 2002 EST (# 6773 of 17697)

Kalter - see http://dan.hersam.com/opinions/exclamation.html

almarst2002 - 08:09am Dec 17, 2002 EST (# 6774 of 17697)

Iraq Sanctions: Humanitarian Implications and Options for the Future - http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/2002/paper.htm

"The 1977 Protocols to the Geneva Conventions on the laws of war include a prohibition of economic sieges against civilians as a method of warfare. Ironically, legal consensus does not yet define economic sanctions as subject to these laws, which apply in warfare and which legally require belligerents to target military rather than civilian objectives. Sanctions operate in a hazy legal status between war and peace. (9) Unlike the dramatic, visible toll of military action, sanctions take their effect gradually, indirectly and with low visibility. "

rshow55 - 08:09am Dec 17, 2002 EST (# 6775 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.

Republicans Say Lott Lacks Bush's Support By CARL HULSE with ELISABETH BUMILLER http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/politics/17LOTT.html

There are obviously many, many "low" calculations going on, in many minds and many groups involved with the Lott matter, but even so, I believe that the responses described above are good examples of human beings, under stress, making adjustments well - and that applies to Mr. Lott's responses, as well as the responses of others.

Senator Lott is exactly correct that he was not responsible for the society that he was born in - though he, like all of us, become increasingly resonsible for what happens, as we acquire power and make decisions.

If problems involving international law, military balances, and dissemination and discussion of information, worldwide, were conducted as well as the negotiations as described in http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/politics/17LOTT.html - - a great deal could be made a great deal better - without the people involved becoming either geniuses or angels.

I disagree, sometimes, with almarst - but if patterns of international discourse could rise to the standard of some actions described in http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/politics/17LOTT.html - very many of his concerns, and commondata's concerns could be much better addressed than they are today.

almarst2002 - 08:11am Dec 17, 2002 EST (# 6776 of 17697)

If You're Happy And You Know It Bomb Iraq - http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1216-06.htm

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