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The Pentagon's Ultimate Home Theater
Steve Silberman writes "I was the first reporter to see the inside of a new battle-simulation system designed by the Institute for Creative Technologies, a 'military-entertainment' think tank sponsored by the Defense Department. Starting in September, Marines, infantrymen, and Air Force pilots will train for war in Matrix-like rooms in Oklahoma simulating urban and desert environments, with surround sound and photorealistic rendering of bombing runs and other scenarios. It may or may not be the future of military training, but it's certainly the future of home gaming. My article, 'The War Room,' will appear in the September issue of Wired."
...before they complete the Abu Ghraib mod? Surely, it will be the killer app for improving the DoD's interrogation techniques without the wetware consumables budget going through the roof!
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Oh yeah.... Go USA...
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Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
" Anybody know of a peace simulation?"
How unAmerican of you!! Die commie scum!!!
-Faux Noows Korrespondint
Get an ignorant excuse for a President to take warnings years old seriously? How about put down a book he was holding upside down and struggling to read so he can lead the country while it's under attack? Can it simulate the imaginary WMD? How about Arab philosophy to prevent illegal wars and give the sand fleas another reason to want to kill all Americans?
I thought so!
I'm not trying to say that the Military has no regard for human life>
Yeah.. I know that the best way to express your joy for a person by shooting them in the face.
Learn something new.
Dude, like, I agree with you and all -- but you may have issues.
... take a look around. If you see anybody running around with boxcutters, by all means: SHOOT
Please walk away from the keyboard now. Go outside. Enjoy the sunshine (do NOT look at the light though).
While you're out
I am upset that we cut funding for social security and medicare yet have no problem funding entertainment theaters.
I am not saying this is not cool. Just that I do not understand why we need all this and why we are all paying for it when other problems need fixing.
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The executive producer of JFETS is Rob Sears, and he's quoted as saying
roughly 1/4 of the way into the article. He's wrong entirely on his second reason. The ICT program has been in the works longer than Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have been in their current positions. From the beginning of the article: Rumsfeld began his job in 2001, and at the time these decisions were made - guessing 5-7 years ago - he was still working in the private industry. Wolfowitz was appointed in 2001 also, and Prior to 2001 he was not involved in defense or military preparedness spending. Mr Sears needs to check his facts on who is responsible for what. President Clinton and his staff pushed the ICT initiative - not Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz or Rumsfeld. This administration simply gets to enjoy the fruits of someone else's purchasing decisions.Israel has complete and full right to defend itself against Arab terrorists. (Please don't tell me they are freedom fighters. They aren't).
Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank could have had their independent state long ago. By the way, Arafat's PLO was founded in 1964, when West Bank and Gaza was under Egyptian and Jordanian control (lasted between 1948 and 1967) -- plenty of time to get independence.
More than that, the so-called Oslo agreement followed by plentitude of Israel concessions gave them that possibility not once. Arafat's gang just doesn't want their state beside Israel, they want it instead of and in place of Israel. And brutal terror is their method to achieve that goal. And thank you, we Israelis don't agree with that.
Summary.
Bin Laden is terrorist.
Arafat is terrorist.
"A complete withdrawal, not only from Iraq, but from the whole of the Middle East, especially of military support for Israel, might break the cycle and at least stop the creation of new terrorists. Otherwise, we continue to make terrorists faster than we can kill them: a war we can never win." -- that's absolute bullshit. Giving up to terroist demands won't appease them -- it'll just wet their appetite. As to withdrawing military support for Israel -- that will end with destruction of Israel and murdering another 6 million of Jews. But that's OK with the modern Leftist quasiliberals. They did nothing to save European Jews from German Nazism, they don't want to do anything to save them from Arab Nazism. Good fucking luck.
P.S.1)
It's worth mentioning here that numerous Leftist politicians and journalists unanimously started to demand breaking American support for Israel the very next day after 9/11 attacks. Even before Al-Qaeda claimed their responsibility. Even before it was even known that Al-Qaeda had anything to do with attacks. Actually they (Leftists) served as spokepersons and promoters of the Islamists cause and demands. Exactly as you do in your posting.
P.S.2)
You will convert to Islam sooner than you think. For Leftists like yourself it is much more attractive to accept enemy's values than to defend their own freedom and values. That's my prediction.
but sometimes avoiding war is uglier.