Reflections From a Murky Pond

The idea of combining an anti-tank mine with a robot vacuum is hilarious. It’s also a bit terrifying. And… it’s probably either already out there in our military’s arsenal or in development. After all, iRobot, the makers of the Roomba, pretty much got their start designing and producing robots for the US military.

Think about it. Either RC or, given that shape recognition software is quite mature technology, autonomous Doombas that can be set in place to await enemy vehicles could easily be done – assuming they haven’t already quietly been so. And then there’s the obvious antipersonnel variant that would mount a flip-up M18A1 Claymore mine or a set of 6 Miniature Grenade Launchers (MGL) such are used with the M7 Spider networked anti-personnel munitions system.

I can hear it now, “Alexa, I’d like to destroy that ZTZ-99A now.”

Tags: Drones | Future Shock | Futurism | Humor | Landmines | Military | Robots | Roomba | Sarcasm | Technology | War

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The arrogance and abject hypocrisy of the Obama Regime knows no bounds, not even those of basic decorum and intelligence. They can’t even manage to be marginally circumspect in the behavior.

With the run-up to the 2012 elections indicating that there was a decent chance that Mitt Romney would be elected and, hence, the Obama Regime would no longer have control over US drone warfare operations, they accelerated their efforts to make rules governing drone strikes to use against Romney.

Of course, once Obama was reelected, these efforts were once again put on the back burner so as not to hamper their own activities.

“There was concern that the levers might no longer be in our hands,” said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

But then this is par for the course for Obama, his handlers and overseers, and his sycophants and cultists. Laws are for other people – Americans – not for them. So too is it par for the course that their priorities were to prepare for the use of lawfare against Romney in the event of his election instead of codifying rules of engagement for drone strikes.

Maybe Obama was just worried about being on the receiving end of drone strike. Face facts, he’s a clearer and less ambiguous enemy target than Anwar al-Awlaki ever was.

Their droning hypocrisy is nauseating. I know that it’s ridiculous to expect any better from Obama and his sort, but I do expect those who are in charge of my nation’s national defense and foreign policy to show a certain modicum of discretion and circumspection when they’re engaged in unsavory activities.

Tags: 2012 Elections | America | Drones | Hypocrisy | Lawfare | Mitt Romney | Obama | Politics | War | War On Terror

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