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In this war, there is no battlefield.

CamperBob 15y ago
More like, on this battlefield there is no war.
JonnieCache 15y ago
Surely, as commander in chief, one of his responsibilities is managing the scope of "this war?" But let's not get into politics...
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guelo 15y ago
That's the problem with these robots. The USA has now set the precedent that the robots can go anywhere in the world and blow anyone up that we label a terrorist. This is dangerous and stupid. Of course it was Bush that invented the endless war (how do we win this war? are we supposed to to kill every young muslim that hates us?), but Bush preferred kidnapping people and sticking them in secret prisons, Obama prefers using robots to assassinate from afar, no messy legal challenges that way. We have a monopoly on the robots now but they are only going to get cheaper in the future and everybody will have them, they will present a threat to all establishments. It is stupid for the USA to be going off on our "might makes right" arrogance destroying all international laws and norms. And for what? Do these dirt poor guys in Afghanistan and Pakistan really pose a threat to us? No they don't. The only solution in the future will be for everyone to come together to ban these machines, similar to the treaties against land mines and chemical weapons, but the U.S. will have no moral authority to do so. This future is not very far away.
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- thret 15y ago
  Once drones become prolific, they will start killing drones instead of people and maybe we can have a bloodless war the same way we have paperless offices.
  - clarkevans 15y ago
    With lots of "collateral" damage.
  - nitrogen 15y ago
    Eventually we won't have to go to the expense of building weapons at all, and computers will decide who lives and dies: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/A_Taste_of_Ar...
- 0x12 15y ago
  > are we supposed to to kill every young muslim that hates us? Why stop at Muslims? Is there something special about them that they deserve death for harboring feelings that others do too?

More like, on this battlefield there is no war.

Surely, as commander in chief, one of his responsibilities is managing the scope of "this war?" But let's not get into politics...

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guelo 15y ago

That's the problem with these robots. The USA has now set the precedent that the robots can go anywhere in the world and blow anyone up that we label a terrorist. This is dangerous and stupid. Of course it was Bush that invented the endless war (how do we win this war? are we supposed to to kill every young muslim that hates us?), but Bush preferred kidnapping people and sticking them in secret prisons, Obama prefers using robots to assassinate from afar, no messy legal challenges that way. We have a monopoly on the robots now but they are only going to get cheaper in the future and everybody will have them, they will present a threat to all establishments. It is stupid for the USA to be going off on our "might makes right" arrogance destroying all international laws and norms. And for what? Do these dirt poor guys in Afghanistan and Pakistan really pose a threat to us? No they don't. The only solution in the future will be for everyone to come together to ban these machines, similar to the treaties against land mines and chemical weapons, but the U.S. will have no moral authority to do so. This future is not very far away.

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thret 15y ago
Once drones become prolific, they will start killing drones instead of people and maybe we can have a bloodless war the same way we have paperless offices.
- clarkevans 15y ago
  With lots of "collateral" damage.
- nitrogen 15y ago
  Eventually we won't have to go to the expense of building weapons at all, and computers will decide who lives and dies: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/A_Taste_of_Ar...
0x12 15y ago
> are we supposed to to kill every young muslim that hates us? Why stop at Muslims? Is there something special about them that they deserve death for harboring feelings that others do too?