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by Welcome to Omsk 02/17/2016, 8:35am PST |
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The lousy target selection in that one incident where they accidentally an entire Syrian hospital aside (sorry, doctors without borders), there haven't been that many incidents of terrible target selection that have come to public attention. Fine, great, obviously anyone with a shred of humanity doesn't want to repeat the Rape of Nanking and values the new peace since WWII. We're still living in an era where the spooks are naming their weapons delivery systems after humanity-killing film villains out of Terminator just a few years after waterboarding was an acceptable enhanced interrogation technique and we have permanent prisons for enemy combatants. There's a tenor to this long war that's right out of Johnny Mnemonic now, a certain corrosion of ethical sentiment and a certain cynicism that's sliding the whole of the west closer to the dystopias we were warned of by Orwell, Huxley, et cetera. That was my point.
People talk a lot about how this is all cyberblah and we're past Marty's Back to the Future benchmark and there's no flying cars, we're in Blade Runner incept date territory and there are no replicants except Marco Rubio, and here we are with a system they honest-to-god named SKYNET and put in charge of selecting terrorist targets for termination. They could have picked any name and they chose SKYNET. You think there's no psychological significance? |
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