MAKING WAR EVEN MORE INHUMAN

FROM TODAY'S NY TIMES COVER STORY: "War would be a lot safer, the Army says, if only more of it were fought by robots."



SAFER FOR WHO, YOU @SSHOLE? Iraqis we should never have started fighting but we're still there after almost a decade? Afghans who want us out of their country, a country which Al Quaeda (the supposed enemy) has left?

One of the Pentagon's estimates for a robot system was $300 billion. We don't have jobs or enough $ to keep our homes! We can't afford this. The US spends more money on defense than EVERY other country combined. Yet we can't win wars in two dirt poor countries like Iraq and Afghanistan? Unless our goal isn't actually to win...Maybe the Pentagon's goal is to award that lucrative $300 billion contract for robots to a company which Michael Chertoff consults for. He certainly hooked up Rapiscan with a ton of dough when these new scanners were deemed necessary--as these robots are now being touted as the answer.

"At the same time, military technologists assert that tele-operated, semi-autonomous and autonomous robots are the best way to protect the lives of American troops."

WHY WOULD I WANT TO PROTECT THE LIVES OF MURDERING, CONSCIENCE-LESS TROOPS WHO MY TAXES PAY FOR? I'd rather protect the lives of Iraqi civilians than US terrorists in uniform.

"Because robots can stage attacks with little immediate risk to the people who operate them, opponents say that robot warriors lower the barriers to warfare, potentially making nations more trigger-happy and leading to a new technological arms race. “Wars will be started very easily and with minimal costs” as automation increases, predicted Wendell Wallach, a scholar at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and chairman of its technology and ethics study group. Civilians will be at greater risk, people in Mr. Wallach’s camp argue, because of the challenges in distinguishing between fighters and innocent bystanders."

I DON'T GIVE A F#CK IF HUMANS OR MACHINES ARE DOING THE ACTUAL COMBAT. WAR IS WRONG. WE'RE ALREADY SO DETACHED FROM THE GRUESOME NATURE OF WAR THAT WE SIT AND DO NOTHING ABOUT IT EVERY DAY. MURDER IS MURDER AND SINCE OUR TAXES ARE PAYING FOR IT, WE'RE ACCOMPLICES TO IT. THIS IS NO CHRISTIAN COUNTRY--WE'RE COMPLETELY AMORAL. JANET JACKSON'S EXPOSED BREAST AT THE SUPERBOWL CREATED MORE OF A SCANDAL THAN THE TWO SENSELESS WARS WE'RE CURRENTLY IN. AND WE'RE TOO STUPID OR UNCARING TO REALIZE THAT OUR PRECOUS TROOPS ARE MAKING US LESS SAFE BY STIRRING HORNETS NESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHICH WILL STING US FOR DECADES TO COME.

BUT WE'RE THE GOOD OL' USA AND OUR SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY AND PRIDE WOULD NEVER ALLOW US TO CUT AND RUN. PLEASE CUT AND RUN! EVEN BETTER, THINK BEFORE YOU CUT IN THE FIRST PLACE! BUT NOW WE'RE OVER THERE AND WE CAN'T JUST LEAVE THESE COUNTRIES IN A MESS, GOES THE TYPICAL REASONING. OH SURE, CARING SO MUCH IS WHY WE INVADED THESE COUNTRIES IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE DID IT OUT OF LOVE. OH, AND SADDAM WAS A BAD MAN. BUSH WAS A WORSE MAN, YOU IDIOTS!

SUPPORT THE TROOPS=SUPPORT US TERRORISTS IN UNIFORM.

THE NY TIMES ARTICLE: NYTIMES



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