In a message dated 8/18/00 10:04:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, spike66@ibm.net
writes:
<< I sure hope that is true, however I would prefer
to see peace achieved by having all countries owning outrageously advanced
defense technologies, that make them too expensive to attack. In the long
run machines are very cheap compared to war. I am interested in seeing
the development of weapons that can *only* be used to defend, but are
useless for attack. Such things exist. >>
Peace through techno-transendence. Will wars become a form of entertainment
as the did in ancient and not so ancient days, because of cheap robots and
highly effective defense systems?
<<Another reason that war was difficult was that it was an internal conflict.
Even libertarians have a hard time seeing what is the right thing to do
there.
Im open to suggestion. spike>>
I cannot imagine this kind of killings going on in the Balkans and not
drawing the Russians in, as well as the Croats, and the Albanians, which
basically; because it would have continued in full forced would have
under-mined Europe elsewhere. Its a domino theory, but one, without some kind
of intervention, would have eventually worked itself into a larger
conflagration.
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