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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
- 07:38pm Feb 10, 2003 EST (#
8795 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.
WORD FOR WORD / The Long Gray Line For Tomorrow's Army,
Cadets Full of Questions by SERGE SCHMEMANN http://nytimes.com/2001/07/08/weekinreview/08SCHM.html?pagewanted=all
Here's a quote from MacArthur, from that piece:
" Your mission remains fixed, determined,
inviolable — it is to win our wars. All other public
purposes will find others for their accomplishment.
Yours is the profession of arms — the will to win, the
sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for
victory, that the very obsession of your public service must
be duty, honor, country."
MacArthur spoke those words after he'd been relieved of
command by Truman -- for wanting to widen a war where he'd
already ordered the fire bombing of cities, and the
destruction of dikes, that killed more than 2 million Koreans
in the North -- almost all of them civilians.
A kind of war-making that had consequences that we're still
dealing with today - half a century after we should
have found a way to come to a real peace treaty with the North
Koreans.
The North Korean tragedy-crisis is one of a number of
reasons for concern - one of a number of tragedies - and
patterns of waste, tragedy, and lost chances.
Question: What if the subordination
MacArthur assumes has ceased to be operational - what if
the patterns he assumes are to be subordinated have become -
over a long period of Cold War - dominant?
That's happened.
The things President Eisenhower's Farewell Address http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/ikefw.htm
warned against have happened - and the patterns he warned
against have been dominant for half a century.
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.
A great deal, for a long time, has been based on fictions.
Sometimes, in some ways, the fictions have worked well. In
other ways, the fictions have produced unnecessary death and
agony.
We can do better - without the agony - if we face up to
what is happened - and sort out problems. The US has some
problems. The Islamic world has some problems. If we lie
somewhat less - face the truth more often, when it matters -
we can do a lot better.
Because questions of fact are now, so clearly, matters of
life and death - there may be more hope of real solutions than
there has been before.
If nation states that have expressed concern about American
priorities - notably Germany, France, and Russia - actually
ask for answers - a great deal would sort out - in the
interest of people of good faith everywhere. Very many such
people are Americans.
almarst2002
- 10:01pm Feb 10, 2003 EST (#
8796 of 17697)
George W Bush is carrying a big stick -- and a large
chequebook. Marion McKeone reports from New York on the
pressures being exerted to win global support for a war on
Iraq - http://www.sundayherald.com/31254
almarst2002
- 10:05pm Feb 10, 2003 EST (#
8797 of 17697)
A federal judge citing security concerns ruled Monday that
the free-speech rights of anti-war demonstrators were not
violated when the city refused to grant them a permit to march
past the United Nations Saturday. - http://www.nynewsday.com/ny-demo0210,0,661385.story?coll=nyc-topheadlines-left
almarst2002
- 10:21pm Feb 10, 2003 EST (#
8798 of 17697)
The Bush Administration is Fascist - http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/11/43227.html
Iraq Ready To Let USA Take Its Oil in Exchange for Peace
- http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/10/43224.html
State of Virginia Bans Vietnamese Flag on Its Territory
- http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/10/43216.html
almarst2002
- 10:36pm Feb 10, 2003 EST (#
8799 of 17697)
Bush was divinely chosen to lead the country - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53498-2003Feb10.html
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