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What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan
theodp writes "After the morning commute from his Las Vegas apartment, Air Force captain Sam Nelson sits in a padded chair inside a low, tan building in Nevada, controlling a heavily armed drone aircraft soaring over Afghanistan, prepared to kill another human being 7,500 miles away if necessary. Welcome to the surreal world of drone pilots, who have a front-row seat on war from half a world away. 'On the drive out here, you get yourself ready to enter the compartment of your life that is flying combat,' explained retired Col. Chris Chambliss. 'And on the drive home, you get ready for that part of your life that's going to be the soccer game.' No wonder why the Air Force is interested in the Xbox LIVE crowd and the Army's opened a new arcade recruitment center!"
US Predator Drone: $4.5 million
US Predator Drone Missile: $70 thousand
US Predator Drone Pilot: $70 thousand/year
Look on the faces of the innocent people in the Afghani wedding party or funeral procession you're about to murder because of faulty intelligence: Priceless
For everything else, there's consequences.
You live is such a disgusting delusional world, that you make me sick!
Who is “them”? HM?
Do you really think the terrorists are some random people in some mountains who probably haven’t even gotten electricity??
Dude, you KILL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS! Dead. Murdered. For nothing!
Have you ever seen someone die? Unless you have killed someone yourself, or were in Afghanistan, just shut the fuck up!
Now switch off the delusion, and think where the real evil people sit:
- The mullahs in Iran and other Arabic countries. (NOT the population!)
- Cheney, Monsanto, Haliburton, Eli Lily, and friends. (NOT the US population.)
- North Korea’s leaders.
- A hand full of other freaks around the world, including Mobutu and Putin.
If you want to do something good, and fulfill your perverse lust to murder other people, go and do it to them. With a special unit of agents. In a covert operation.
That’s what one gets for discussing such topics on a tech site. :(
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Only an American site could moderate this flamebait. Only in America... :(
Maybe if you get a Hitler once, or Gulags/KZs, like we had, you will stop seeing the millitary as something great and glorious. Hell, even the strongest criticizers of wars turn to raving freaks yelling “U.S.A U.S.A.” when among soldiers. What’s WRONG with you???
Remember: Whoever moderated this down, thinks killing other people is a great thing.
You wouldn’t want to live in a country with such a guy, would you?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
but taking up positions among civilians and using them as shields is cowardly and dishonourable.
Yes, while bombing civilians from afar, in between dropping off your kids to school and going back to cheer them on in their school sports, is highly honourable.
Also, supporting your country in waging a war with no defined goals on the soil of another country, causing the deaths of *multiple-9/11s worth of civilians* (in absolute terms even, despite the fact Afghanistan is a much smaller country) there, is also very honourable. Particularly honourable when you give that support from the comfort of your couch, informed by little more than the scant coverage from Fox and CNN.
I use Friend/Foe + mod-point modifiers as a karma/reputation system.
Here's a free clue for you since you so badly need one: Try actually reading my original message. Once you've done so, you'll note that your quoted passage appears nowhere in it. Either reply to what I quoted and wrote, or go reply to the OP.