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Future Weapons of War in the Works
An anonymous reader writes "Who needs explosive missiles when you can just launch a 3 foot long chunk of metal at near Mach 7 speeds and get the same result? Popular Science looks at weapons the military is developing for future wars including electromagnetic railguns, space darts, superfast torpedos, laser cannons, and a gun that fires a million rounds per minute."
It would be far better to spend all this money on giving people less reason to fight each other.
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Say, better resource control in Mozambique (water)? What about building a machine that, instead of pumping out millions of rounds of lead per second, are able to make mud bricks and houses at a rate of 10 a day?
Why isn't this a priority? Simple. The ones in control of the funding are fucking assholes and have all the justification they need to continue bringing misery and death to the world
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Yes. Why the f*ck is Tony Blair not more critical of Bush's approach? I don't understand why he can't both support the USA, and be critical of it. I don't see them as exclusive. I would respect him a lot more if he did this.
Listen to his allies? Bush blew the cover of a CIA spy because her husband was saying things he didn't want to hear.
Bush decides what he wants to do, and goes fishing for someone who will give him a good excuse for doing it.
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I think it's entirely fitting that US flag is displayed alongside this topic. The only things missing are maybe an Israeli flag and a picture of the greenback. It helps to show how things are related...
The hypocracy of the US manufacturing these Weapons of Mass Destruction is probably lost on most Americans. I'm sure they were screaming and wollowing in self-pity when they saw the video of the US citizen being beheaded. But they conveniently sweep under the carpet the fact that while that incident was carried out by a small group of desperate people trying to protect their countries from a brutal occupying force, it is standard procedure for US soldiers to carry out torture, rape and executions of Iraqi civilians. The handful of soldiers in the shit over it at the moment are all claiming that they were following orders of their superior officer, and that they were in turn following orders from CIA officers. The guy in charge of the prison where all the action has been uncovered was removed from control of a US prison in the 70s for doing exactly the same thing to prisoners back then.
The whole thing stinks of war crimes to me.
But as I said, this will be lost on most Americans, who will be cheering that they are developing even better Weapons of Mass Destruction to protect themselves ( and of course to hand to the fucking Israelis - so they can protect themselves too ).
And you wonder what causes terrorism!
Exactly.
And that is why we need a world government that can overrule all other governments. This would probably not be a good thing for smaller countries, but would at least put a limit on the things the US could get away with.
The whole thing stinks of war crimes to me.
The U.S. is guilty of more war crimes than any other state.
Period.
The U.S. refuses to live up to its ratification of the ICC, because half of the existing Administration would go straight to Jail, would not collect $200, and would not pass Go...
Dick Cheney == biggest war criminal of the 21st Century.
Highway of Death incident, anyone? (It was his order...)
Most Americans do not have the courage to confront the fact that their country is being run by known and wanted criminals.
Alas, the conversion of American to Consumerican has been completed successfully, and the elite get their way no matter what...
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
I find it interesting that the slashdot story icon for this is a nice wavy American flag. Is making missiles and weapons what America is proud of ?
... because there are people like you in the world who serve only to justify inhumanity
People like me, eh? I haven't started any genocidal wars, not that I can remember.
The problem with liberals like you is that you assume that people are fundamentally cooperative and sane, if only the nasty Warmongers (or Americans or Jews or Capitalists or whoever you blame) would go away, the world would return to Eden-like bliss. My advice to you is to grow up a bit.
The US Army is world-famous for its ability to shoot down its allies and its own forces. It even invented the phrases "friendly fire" and "blue on blue" to describe it. I mean, what army needs two euphemisms for trigger-happiness?
Case in point: during D-Day all allied planes were marked with thick black and white stripes in the hope of reducing the level of fratricide.
Wow! Thanks for raising the bar for all other AC posters.
There are certainly some barbaric pieces of shit in this world, and they are mostly American. Keep in mind who invaded who.
Then we should invade Israel at once, because that is exactly what the Israeli army is doing.
When's the last time the IDF targeted noncombatants? And no tin-foil-hat bullshit: I mean actual events that really happened.
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