"The future of soldiers.. is in front of a screen...
I'm all for any technology that makes war faster, cleaner, with less friendly fire and non-combatant, death and bleeding..."

When you shoot from a screen, you get the "Playstation syndrome" - i.e., no morality, no common sense, no "wait a minute, what am I doing?" second thoughts.

It's just "shoot'em up and get a higher score than my buddy".

Who are the victims ? Not enemy drones, let me tell you.
It's not going to be a "starwars dogfight" but  indirect target shooting.
So... who will be the real victims ? Would you like a second guess ?

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2014/05/23/most-us-drone-strikes-in-paki...
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid... Deaths from drone attacks much higher than reported
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan



Do your math: of 482 declared estimated deaths, 6 certified Al-Qaeda leaders,
265 "small fry" (men, not combatants, just men) ... and 211 civilians (women and children) guilty of... just living there...  



Excerpt from a study conducted by Stanford University.
Unfortunately... you can't even get married anymore !!!

http://www.nbcnews.com/#/news/investigations/yemenis-drone-strike-turned-wedd...



"The Obama administration has launched an internal investigation into a Dec. 12 drone strike in Yemen that targeted an al Qaeda militant
but which local villagers say ended up hitting a wedding party, killing 12 and injuring 14 others, U.S. officials tell NBC News.

NBC News has obtained exclusive videos and photos taken in the aftermath of the strike.
The graphic images show the scorched bodies of young men who villagers say were part of a convoy on their way to the wedding celebration
when they were killed in their pickups by two Hellfire missiles fired by a U.S. drone. "

Of course, the US-led inquiry was conducted in the US and nobody was ever asked nor required to compensate the families ...



It reminds me of "liberating" carpet bombings during WW2:
in order to destroy one railroad terminal, let's claim a few thousand lives...

These are pictures of "liberation bombings" in Rome, courtesy of ... you guessed it...  
In 90 minutes, over 4000 bombs were dropped, and casualties ran over 11000, but only 1674 were identified.





You wouldn't even heed the Pope's begging for mercy.

Of course, what's a 2500 y.o. neighborhood with churches dating back to the days of Costantine,
when the target is a 19th Century railroad terminal you could have rendered just as inoperative with a Team from the OSS ?

Hey ! Fly those planes !  

So ... my message is... avoid a generation of Playstation pilots and Nintendo warriors... life is more than just a videogame  



And please pardon my irony, but Italy still carries the scars from bombings which happened 70 years ago
(and we still dig up unexploded ordnance...)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/05/special-forces-members-noticed-som...


--Steve

WebsterMark wrote on 06/05/14 at 06:48:57:

You still believe that the Republicans and Democrats are different…..BS!!!!!

They both are going in the same direction and no matter which is placed in top position by the hacked voting machines, and corporations,  the final destination remains the same.  They both will start the same wars. Death and destruction will be their answer as long as their personal wealth increases and increase it will……..that’s why they invest fortunes for a job that pays less than what they inve$t……But people like yourself seem to be satisfied with this system because there are  2 parties….so there will always be one party to blame……after all you go to church and they tell you that Rambo Jesus and his imaginary daddy in the sky are on your side……because the U.S. is the good guys……that is what we “learned” …..were programed to believe in the government controlled schools and from watching all the “programing“on the propaganda TV.

The governments strong-arm military recruits young folks with glamorous lies. We join thinking we are the good guys and will save helpless poor people from their evil villain leaders. We believe that we are going to fight the bad guys over there so they won't come over here and take your freedom to remain ignorant away from you. We join with good intentions. We go off to battlegrounds and kill, die, get wounds that stay with us for life, and watch our friends get killed. We soon realize that those we fight are defending their homeland and really didn't want or need our assistance. We realize that our purpose was not in reality to assist the down trodden oppressed after all. Our purpose was in reality to assist the elite wealthy gain control/steal valuable resources and increase their wealth. We soon realize that we were duped.
………well maybe that this soldier woke up to the truth and said phuck it….I’m out of here. If that’s the case…. I wish him the best. He certainly will need it as he will be made to pay for the sins of a country gone bad. The Cheneys. Bushs, Soetoros will walk free for their crimes that placed this hapless soul in harm’s way and told him to kill other humans for their greed.

If we don’t do our best to wake up our fellow countrymen to the fact that the people pretending to be the government that George Washington and his fellow founders created are rotten to the core and are enemies to the United States Constitution and all that is good….. then we will continue to slide into a tyrannical hellhole until even people such as yourself finally get it…..By then it will be too late!

WebsterMark wrote on 06/06/14 at 17:10:31:

WHY?

STATED Ideology is one thing,, in practice, theres not a dimes worth of difference between bubs & dems,, Look at the wars,, mite as well be Bush in there..

WebsterMark wrote on 06/07/14 at 20:41:29:

I am asking a question. Why does is ideology so important?

Ideology........

It is nothing more than a sales pitch.

I understand the process of analyzing a problem, arriving at a solution based upon ones experience, and understanding, which might be termed ideology
However, using only that, in trying to reach a solution makes one an ideologue, which narrows the possibilities to a fix, based upon what the person is willing to consider in finding a possible solution.

Why is it used to campaign, because approx 80% on the voters vote strict party lines, regardless of the candidate itself, to appeal to their narrow mindset (ideology).

This reasoning retards new, and novel leaders, keeping the US stuck in a quagmire that is dragging us down as a nation, and individually as unique citizens too.....

His arrogance and poor leadership removed any chance on another vote by me for a second term.

Face it, you know you became a racist AFTER you voted for him,,Racism is the only explanation for criticizing him,