#13. To: Lod, Original_Intent, Lod, James Deffenbach, Jethro Tull, christine (#0)
According to Admiral Patrick Walsh, the commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet until last year, there is no reason to fear China's military buildup as long as U.S. capabilities keep pace.
So, remember, The Military Industrial Complex is not just a bunch of greedy, politician greasing, ass raping conceptual artists trying to devise the most unthinkable weapons imaginable. They're the glad handing guys in blue suits who guarantee that the little girl picking daisies will always have flowers growing, right up to the moment when they're vaporized at the speed of light by a stealth sub-launched weapon of incredible magnitude.
"Gee, we were so busy selling the military our space based particle beam weapons mounted on the metal storm multi-barreled stacked projectile space drones that we failed to address the (low profit yield) flaw in our submarine nets in the former Rappahannock River, now part of the Washington DC Deep Water Trench Watershed."
As long as there's an America there will be demented eggheads and flag officers preparing white papers for secret congressional committees on the effectiveness of, Jesus who the Hell knows what?
When we consider that killing a half a billion Chinese would be a blessing for them, the next generation of weapons can't just kill the enemy. In order to serve in a deterrent role they must deny the enemy entry into their respective paradise afterlives. It's not a simple matter of greasing bullets with pig fat. These remote controlled weapons will have to trigger complicated incantations that are precisely times to send the (mostly civilian non combatants, you know, like Dresden) newly dead to the land of forever gone and forgotten.
Christ, just thinking about this stuff makes me feel like Lovecraft or Poe, and especially Stephen King. When asked why he chose to pen the macabre King replied, "What makes you think I have a choice?"
A million dead Iraqis (for example) might differ with your assessment.
That is stretch from meeting a war hungry person to a million dead Iraqis.
I spent some time in and around the military and never met a man that wanted to go kill someone.
We were taught to kill or be killed or be shot for not obeying orders.
It was very emotional to sit around with grown men, crying because all they wanted was to go home. Booze gives false bravado, but not in the life of a grunt.
Ike shot Slovik because he did not want to kill. That makes Slovik war hungry?
My brother shot many a German in WW2, until they shot him. Never once did he espouse anything about wanting to kill anyone.
Bandying the term war lover around seems macho, but it is not.
"War hungry" and "war lover" are elastic and subjective expressions that you can hang any construction on that you like I suppose. Idiots slice each other to ribbons on these forums over stupid semantics & I won't stoop to that level of tedium.
I will say though that as a whole this culture of ours is war hungry and made more so through artificial means, through media, movies and "gaming," etc. It's pretty disgusting. I see kids' minds disfigured by this kind of garbage every day. And wherever I go, other people increasingly see us as "war lovers."
I'm genuinely sorry for the crap you had to endure as I regret the hell my father had to go through. I didn't have to suffer it. You have my regards - in that regard.