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The Soldier of the Future
An anonymous reader writes "Land Warrior, the Army's wearable electronics package, was panned earlier this year by the troops who were testing it out. They were forced to take the collection of digital maps and next-gen radios to war, anyway. Now, Wired's Noah Shachtman reports from Iraq, those same soldiers are starting to warm up to their soldier suits of the future."
why does it matter if their American? I'm for saving lives period. I've lived on the other side of the great divide. I've been in the military. I've since decided that it's wrong to think about being just an American citizen and defending this country. To truly move forward we must think of ourselves as global citizens and care for all people. It's when we divide ourselves into groups (American, Iraqi, etc...) that we forget to see the humanity in others.
You should trademark that and try to sell it to hallmark. It might make a nice UN-day card to send to some savage who just performed an 'honor killing' on his sister for going outside with her ankles exposed.
Then maybe spend a few minutes thinking about how this 'global citizen' concept is working out with the UN and the EU as they try to do something resembling a global government, or at least a pretty big one.
Sorry bud, culture counts, some are better than others, and there are bad people out there. Add those things up and you get conflict. Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
Spend the money on education, health, transport, space exploration, helping other countries... but for fark sake, cut the budget for the military. There's people starving in Africa picking your coffee for you. People starving in Colombia, picking the coffee for you. Same goes for many other countries who America wants to defend itself from... mainly nations of little brown people who are tired of eating granies for breakfast, lunch and dinner!