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Heat Ray Gun Fails Final Test; Nixed From War
eldavojohn writes "The heat ray gun to be deployed in Afghanistan has failed its final test and will not be deployed. US military commanders who have had it in the field now have declined to use it. After being tested more than 11,000 times on around 700 volunteers, it failed to achieve satisfaction from the military and will not be deployed."
This isn't an ordinary war. It's a house-to-house search for malefactors. Or at least it should be. Clear an area, leave a presence to prevent it from being taken again and to cap anything that was hiding, then move your main force on to the next one.
I would utterly destroy you if you attempted that shit in my neighborhood. Absolutely. Destroy. The term "invasion" is apt in every possible way here.
Medieval tactics are inferior to modern tactics in the same way that Unix is inferior to modern OSes like Windows. We may be more comfortable with "modern" things, but that doesn't make them better, or make the old things any less useful.
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In the videos I've watched, most people directly in front of the device aren't doing anything other than covering their ears. Only a few are actually moving away, which is the device's intended effect.
Looks more like a device with mediocre performance to me, and isn't going to help the police do their job to disband unruly protests. I'm thinking those protesters are crybabies who were coddled. If they prefer tear gas and batons, no problem- those are tried and true methods of getting people to do what the police want. Hearing damage? Ha! I'm a liberal but I gotta say: grow a pair, hippies.
You obviously don't understand a thing and just decided to butt in to make your stupid anti-zionist rant. Let's point out why people should ignore you, shall we?
Afghanistan, like many Mideastern countries is blessed with neither a homogeneous population, nor a long history of belief in the rule of law. Add to that its society's fierce tribal bonds and your suggestion that Afghani forces can easily handle anti-insurgent operations on their own is clearly idiotic.
Your understanding of Israel is also deeply flawed, not only in the baseless accusations, but because Israel has never, and likely will never "do as America commands". It has its own interests at heart, and it cannot be swayed from the conviction to maintain a safe haven for the Jewish people. Israel has beaten back the Arabs during a US embargo before with far less capacity than it has now (it was behind Arabs in both technology and quantity back then, where today it far surpasses them), so stopping aid won't have an effect for a very long time. What we need less of is the anti-semitic rhetoric used by Palestinian terror organizations and people like yourself who parrot their hateful propaganda and make Israel doubt Palestinians could handle running their own state.