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Yeah, it's cool and scary at the same time. On the scary side, besides the antiseptic thing, my concern is also what will happen with the UN and EU's attempt to offset US military strength by building an EU army, etc.

I am so not worried about this. Socialism is overtaking the EU. This alone will take them down long before they become a threat to anyone. The UN has already proved that they are ineffectual and impotent. Who really cares what they think? I've always argued that the UN has only ever done more harm than good. More wars have been started by UN action than stopped by them. Might was well get all the biggest gangs in town to all meet in the same bar some night... the outcome would be just as predictable as any UN action has ever been. Nothing solved, and many new problems added.

For that reason I think it's vital that we stay well ahead in the arms race, esp. in stuff like space weapons, robotics, and nanotechnology. We didn't even use most of what we've got in that area and we still blitzed Iraq faster than France could say "I surrender"; my mind reels to think of what it would look like if we really flexed our muscles. I suspect the last few Star Wars movies are not far off the mark of where the future of warfare is going.

Quite so. I only know a little about the robotics we're doing over there, and what I know scares the dickens outta me. We're doing some really unbelievably cool things with really cool toys. Maybe not so much with the laser-blaster weapons, but stay tuned... :-)

Speaking of EU being overtaken by socialism, I've been hanging out with son this evening on a website that all his friends are playing - Going around at school, and getting popular. I'm very suspect.

http://www.nationstates.net

The UN is the world's governing body. hmmmm, and my little country of, ahem, Yoakle, is not a member. hmmm

I'm not worried about the UN/EU in themselves, but in conjunction with what they might do with an ally like Kerry or Hillary in the Oval Office. It'd also be a big inconvenience if we lost our British alliance to the EU leftists--those British air bases we've been using since WWII are handy :) But on the positive side, we are picking up some good allies in Eastern Europe, so we've got the EU nicely encircled.

On blasters, wasn't there a FR thread on those over the past week?--something about tasers minus the attachments, I think.