re: #59 Targetpractice

I don’t think we’re ever going to be out of danger at this rate. Pissing on corpses, burning Qurans, shooting civilians. It seems like we’ve gone from one incident to the next. And the Right cheering those responsible on, every step of the way, thinking that the apologies are what’s putting us in danger.

The challenge of modern warfare is that it exists not simply for conquest and destruction as in olden days, but as just one tool in the toolbox of political diplomacy. And diplomacy requires sophistication, tact, and foresight. But as in olden days, soldiers are still young men, the demographic least capable of sophistication, tact, and foresight. (I can say this because I used to be one.)

The only solution I can see is that we need to make mecha-style combat suits a reality so that my grandma can be sent in to a combat zone to kill enemy soldiers and then bake pies and meatloaf for the civilians. And maybe send them all a birthday card with $20 bucks in it every year.