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I'm disappointed... what an alarmist and false article. Soldiers are expensive to train, you want them to come back safe and healthy so you can send them out ag
by ilkan 11y ago
I'm disappointed... what an alarmist and false article. Soldiers are expensive to train, you want them to come back safe and healthy so you can send them out again. Fighting is a messy affair where you have to rely on people making good independent decisions in swiftly variable situations with limited information, and helping each other out.. a battalion of "hunter killer cyborgs" needing direction and micromanagement would be a real commander's worst nightmare. Commenters have been playing too many video games :)
Most armies are volunteer, not draft... who would ever join again?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago> who would ever join again? well if it's 'join the army or starve', the choice becomes a little clearer.
- astazangasta 11y ago>Soldiers are expensive to train, you want them to come back safe and healthy so you can send them out again. Who is "you"? Maybe you. I didn't want to send out soldiers in the first place. I haven't supported a single conflict the US has been involved in in my lifetime, and I certainly don't think that the need to get soldiers - who have already been traumatically injured fighting bullshit wars - back in the field is a pressing one. Even if it WAS a pressing need, are you fucking INSANE? The US military implanting chips in soldiers' brains is a fucking bonkers notion. How about we stop putting these people in harm's way for our oil wars, first of all, and start actually offering them good medical treatment and therapy when they get home? Let's solve all of these problems first, then we can talk about putting chips inside them (the answer will still be 'no').