This article is a thinly vieled anti war hit piece. Why should we go and snuff out a "malicious process" on a "foreign machine"? Nice try though.
No, it's not a thinly veiled antiwar piece. I can see where you might get that, if you really tried hard to connect the two, but this issue was being thrown around in IT circles long before we got here. Mullins just scared the IT community when he added a methodology to the previously purely philosophical debate.
Your reply is proof that you can read just about anything into anything, if you try hard enough.