"Future Weapons" on Discovery Channel premieres Monday

[Ilsa]

evening at 9pm EST, I suppose. They have an ad running which shows in slow motion a projectile blasting through various impenetrable walls, etc. Looks lethal. I suppose we should be prepared and watch, since the military is also spying on Americans now.

[PATRICK]

1. Mud walls and plywood

We do pretty good blasting through several homes at a time, dropping smart bombs on shepherds. Who exactly are they trying to kill? These weapons, ironically have only one practical target, American defenses and armor.

It is cheaper for nations to acquire a weapon than Maginot lines.

Weapons that kill a lot more poor people and blast a lot more buildings are expensively redundant and dangerous mostly to their own makers. That has been true for some time. And when the people fall apart who have these weapons(USSR e.g.) one remembers where the universal priority has always been. Look to your people and your peace.

[Odin2005]

2. Most of those "new, high-tech weapons" are pork projects for the Millitary-Industrial Complex.