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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."
Spend billions and billions of dollars on new weapons.
:) So it's not all bad.
Sell off all the old weapons to foreign nations to get some balance in the budget.
Realise that the weapon you sold are almost as good as the weapon you developed and start all over again researching even better and more deadlier weapons.
Sell off all the old weapons....
And then you have it going. Great profit for those who make weapons tho
Yes. It must be really expensive to make all of these amazing weapons.
No wonder we can't afford health care, education, Social Security, welfare, and a living wage.
It all makes sense now.
The problem with all these expensive new weapons isn't that we have morons who run our foreign policy and invade countries based on pathetic, easy-to-disprove (e.g. WMD) lies.
The problem with these "smart" weapons isn't that we have low-skilled people in the military fleeing "McJobs" flipping burgers or Wal-Mart clerking who were primarily interested in the military in order to fund a college education. (E.g. like the MPs stupid enough to take pictures of their torture.)
The problem with these weapons isn't that we simply cannot afford them and that as a nation we would be far, far better off sinking our riches into education or economic development rather than more toys for generals to play with.
The problem isn't even that, as Martin Luther King Jr. put it, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
The problem is that these weapons won't solve our "security"[sic] problems. We make our own enemies. We funded and created Bin Laden and Hussein. The Iraqis are now defeating the US military with little more than improvised explosives, courage, and a desire to defend their homeland. These new weapons will simply spur an arms race that we cannot afford and our insecurity will remain that will cause us to spend more and develop more new weapons. It's a race to the bottom.
Oh I support your right to make an ass of yourself. I was just giving you ideas for your next step.
And only a moron would think that Arafat couldn't shut the terrorist attacks down within a month if he was serious about it.
Of course, then those filthy Jews would still be in Israel.
Make no mistake about it. When you hear someone criticize Israeli policies regarding the Palestinians, you are listening to a jew-hater.
Arafat runs the Palestinians, so anyone who excuses him and targets Israel as the problem does so because they hate Israel, and the only reason to hate Israel is because it's full of Jews. No other reason. But the anti-semite can spew his vitriol by cloaking it in a drapery of human rights and opposition to Israel.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.