[Sherman Logan]

our self-limiting definitions of allowable targets and acceptable casualties—hostile, civilian and our own—continue to narrow fatefully.

In the new Terminator movie, the hero breaks chain of command to plead with the resistance to disobey their commanders and not launch a supposedly war-winning attack on the genocidal enemy.

The reason? The enemy has thousands of hostages at the attack site.

If we launch an attack that kills hostages, we are not really human.

Under this bizarre theory of warfare, no attack can ever be launched if the enemy has a few hostages or civilians around.

What was most interesting is that after all the hollering, the heroes apparently rescued perhaps a half dozen of the hostages, then blow the rest up with nuclear energy.

[geologist]

Star Trek during the 70’s spoke of wars carried on by computers that kept track of supposed causalities and victories. Actually a war without real casualties/no dead bodies or severe injuries. It was a strange thought then.

It is unrealistic, and more like a fairy tale. However today's youths and thirty something are in agreement with what a good idea it is.

we are in huge trouble as a result of our entertaining ourselves with self indulgences of all kinds and maximum distractions around us every waking moment. The ADD TV,creating our children to have attention spans of about 3 seconds. Not all not all ... ;but we are in big trouble. We are captured from within our selves, our thinking, our desires, our instant gratification syndrome.

God help us all.. Amen.