[DCPatriot]

I'm not thinking of an RFID tag.

I'm thinking of a Lojack type device or a device which allows you to pinpoint within a few yards of a cellular telephone signal.

Caller ID stopped obscene phone calls dead....and GPS on children would stop kidnappings and assorted other crimes.

It's a crime that this technology isn't used on our soldiers in a hot war zone.

They have computer transmitters the size of a head of a straight pin.

[randog]

They have computer transmitters the size of a head of a straight pin.

Do you have a link to such a device?

[livius]

Frankly, I think we'd do much better by "chipping" the enemy. We have caught and released a lot of them, and I think at least certain ones should have been chipped in some way (unknown to them) so that they can be tracked. I'm not sure this would be useful in the long term, but we would initially get some good info about their hiding places and nests.

[Robert A Cook PE]

There are practical problems with the permanent chip problem: One of which is simple: In war, the enemy CAN (despite any tricks you can think of) use those chips to tell the enemy where our troops are.

Sure, try decoding, encoding, and code-breaking technology, then you get into daily or weekly code-changing resets.

Power, replacement units, and range are practical restraints.

Remember, the media are emphasizing TWO soldiers' death by torture to DELIBERATELY hurt the war effort and Bush's presidency: we lost 6,000 in one day in Normandy. Tens of thousands in Iwo Jima.

Without the MEDIA trying to protect the terrorists, the death by torture of two soldiers would empower the president and destroy the enemy.