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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians

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To: marcos who wrote (675)9/24/2002 6:36:16 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 1293
 
marcos,

That was a fascinating bit of history. I'd forgotten (or perhaps never realized) how soon after the time of Mohammed that the Islamic forces were so aggressive. Messianic zeal can be an astonishing force in human history. That's why I find a man like John Ashcroft to be so dangerous to civil society. Add to his zeal the profit motive of the "defense" industries and we have a potent witch's brew of insane motivations for war.

Gosh, maybe it's time for me to convert to being an evangelical and get a job at Lockheed....<g>

BTW, did you see the item on the Achilles Heel of the JDAM program? This is pretty interesting, IMO:

GPS JAMMING: A new headache for the War Party: From the Wall Street Journal
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"The hugely successful (JDAM) satellite-based technology that has enabled a growing number of U.S. bombs to hit their targets may be vulnerable to a kind of jammer available through the Internet for $39.99."
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