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Tim Klein asks:

> How do those who work with military computers justify to themselves the 
> knowledge that they are creating weapons?

You might as well ask how anyone can be a cop - how do cops justify to
themselves the knowledge that they arrest people and sometimes even kill
people?  Or how can anyone be a doctor and cut people open?  Or how can
anyone work for a bank and forclose on a farmer's mortgage?

These are not great analogies, I'll admit.  But there are times when it
is right to arrest or shoot people, to cut them open, and to forclose
on their family farms.  Likewise, there are times when it is right to
wage war.

I don't mean to say I unequivocally support the Gulf War.  But the only
guarantee of peace with freedom is a good army.

Would the world be a better place if we were carpet-bombing Baghdad with
B-52s full of dumb bombs?  Would the world be a better place if our F-177-A
Nighthawk stealth fighters were not able to destroy Scud missiles in their
stores?  Would we as a nation be better off if there were no spy satellites
to help us find the Scuds, or to help us verify nuclear peace treaties?

Jerry J. Anderson