From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sat Jun 09 2001 - 17:13:29 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:11:42PM -0700, Spike Jones wrote:
> > > I predict that as soon as practical, all our weapons and
> > > surveillance systems will be drones with their controllers
> > > warm and safe at home. spike
>
> Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> > This, combined with the development of non-lethal weapons on the surface
> > looks as a very nice trend - war with no casualities. In practice I
> > expect that it might have a dangerous effect....
>
> All good points, Anders. I hope your prediction is wrong however,
> and we apes recognize the madness of it all before it develops
> to its logical conclusion. {8-]
Note: I just saw in a program on the Vietnam War that of all American wounded
in action soldiers who received some form of medical care, 98% survived the
war. The 58,000 deaths/MIAs through the 10 years of war there for the US equal
less than a third to a tenth of the DAILY deaths in some battles of WWI.
What concerns me most for the future is that the 'engagement' policy the US
has pursued with the Peoples Republic of China has resulted not in an opening
of Chinese society to freedom and western ideals of liberty, but instead has
fanned flames of chinese nationalism far greater than ever hoped for by the
Kuomintang. Nationalism is a disease of the mind that allows the victim to
ignore all signs that one's nation may be somehow in error (I'm sure some are
thinking about the irony of me saying this). Isolation and encirclement
resulting in economic strangulation, like was pursued by the US with respect
to the Soviet Union is required to give the Chinese mainlanders the smack
upside the head that they might be living under a bad system. If you don't
think we should do this, and if the US does not do this, I can guarantee you
that the Chinese will do it to us by 2030, its part of their strategic
planning today to assume a showdown militarily and econmically with the US.
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