What is going on here? Fear mongering must be at an all time high. It seems people can’t get enough war on these days. More and more spending on defence so that generals can play with toy soldiers and bigger better bombs.

Terminator may not be too far away from fiction…
The U.S. is set to deploy “SWORDS” in IRAQ. SWORDS is short for Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems. Basically what you have here is a remote controlled killing machine armed with a machine gun. Hmmm devilishly similar to a video game which is alluded to in the Technovelgy article.

I’m not against the military per se. Just an advocate treating others how you would like to be treated. Chest beating and extreme intervention only exacerbates a problem (creates more enemies if anything). Of course this is the downward spiral - see the U.S. Deficit at record levels and a massive erosion in the standard of living stateside. Mr. Harper are you taking notes in Afganistan or are you planning to spend into recession yourself? Hoping that Canada can take its role and better an already worsening situation rather than being left to be someone else’s “janitor” of choice and more than our share of the bill…

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