Maybe all of us soldiers should just go home so you can see how friendly our neighbors really are.

Full Metal Jacket WAS a documentary... What you see on TV is cleaned up for the cameras.

The nice thing about a robot is that you can bring it with you in a truck and not worry too much about it for months on end. It will sit patiently, consuming nothing, until the one time you want to use it. ie. we need to move this equipment to this observation post halfway up a mountain where no roads exist. Oh, and EVERYTHING needs to be in place in a single night. When the mission is done, the robots can sit patiently till the next time.

Mules are good if you are moving supplies day in day out. But if you only have to do it once or twice a year, robots are very useful and don't waste your time and attention when you have a battle to fight. And the fuel one of these uses is minuscule compared to everything else happening. There are no power stations. Just generators. And LOTS of big trucks.

As for cost, its blood or money. This thing allows for more flexible missions. Which means we can act like light infantry but still have the firepower of a heavy force. That means the Taliban won't know where we'll pop up. But yes, wars are expensive...

Where does this shit come from? Did New Yorkers piss in everyone's coffee or something?

I was observing that it shouldn't be surprising that protestors are absent. And to compare the Libyan war in any way to something like Iraq is absurd. I thought Afghanistan was right. I thought Iraq was wrong, and I protested it. Getting involved in the Libyan war was the right thing to do.

Yes, I see that your point was probably meant in regard to the constitutional or maybe international legality of the involvement. My point is that protestors are not driven by fine legal points. They are driven by moral views. You can have something that is illegal but right, or legal that is wrong.

Except for the part where the people asked for it, and proved with their own blood that they wanted to fight this fight. We refused to stand on the sidelines in an ongoing war and we made a difference. That's something to be proud of. Bringing war to a people at peace, even if they think they are unhappy, is something different entirely.

Most people in the US don't like congress. What if a foreign power came in to "liberate" us from congress? You'd be pissed, right? Well what if you were presently in a life or death fight against congress and a foreign power showed up to give you help? That's different. Isn't it?

It was originally mounted on headgear, but presented problems. Aside from looking goofy, a version based around the head misses most obstacles, since they are generally near the ground.

Really, the term "Afghan soldier" is kind of vague. In news reports, it usually means Afghan National Army. In a strict sense though, Taliban soldiers are [mostly] Afghan, and they are definitely soldiers. Sometimes the term "fighter" is used in place of "soldier" to indicate a Taliban soldier. I never liked this though. It feels like a cheap attempt to avoid the Geneva conventions.

Terminology aside, if you think the ANA or ANP or anybody in Afghanistan is above looting the shit out of free supplies, you're sadly mistaken. haha.

I'm not sure you realize this, but over that exact time period we've become involved in three wars.

But all of those baby boomers paid into the system their whole lives up until now. That is why Social Security used to have money worth taking for other projects, and why Al Gore wanted a "lock box." Everyone saw this coming, but only a handful of politicians actually cared about it enough to try to prevent it.

At some point, don't they have all the information about us? Given all the security breaches in everything we do, you would think that the market of this information would eventually be saturated. What more do these people want to know? The size of my johnson?

Seriously, I'm looking for somebody that understands what's going on to explain this to me. What use is all of this information?

And all I want to know is will I still get a free groping at the airport? It's FREE people. jeez...

I probably would not have watched the video if it was posted, but was happy to read the text. That the GP bothered to write out the whole thing indicated to me that he thought it was important. Simply posting a link to a youtube video doesn't tell me that.

Not true, at least in the US. In Feist v. Rural it was ruled that a phone book is simply a collection of fact, and not creative content. The particular phone book in question did have fake entries in it, which is how the copying was identified. The point is to identify and prove infringement with fake entries, not to manufacture justification for copyright.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

Jokes on him. None of us read the article!