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• Monday, January 5, 2009 01:29 PM

  My dear Paul in KY,

  You cannot count on one side maintaining technological superiority over the other. The Soviets used to have ICBMs when we didn't and a little effort changed that.

  Now anyone can buy a GPS locater and you can buy remote control toy helicopters, planes, dragonflies and bats at any radio shack or gadget store.

  Remember those remote control model airplanes that Saddam was threatening the security of the USA with? How would you like for Palestinians to take what is cheap and plentiful and weaponise it?

  Push them hard and long enough and you may have a bunch of kids playing real video game war with game consoles modified to control toys. IDF soldier gets taken out by a 50 dollar toy with a needle attached to its nose?

  Want to motivate the Palestinians by killing even more of them?

  Amateur genetic engineering is also a popular hobby now? You really want to convince people that they have to wage war against you to survive?

  Do you really want to demand payback from your victims?

  Right now, 50 bucks and a hypodermic needle filled with something deadly and you have your own personal cruise missile of death. Far more effective for kids fighting soldiers rather than slingshots, rocks and molotov cocktails.

  How many Palestinians are reading this?

  How many of them have 50 bucks?

  What if someone spent some real money?

  GORT in the new TDTESS - how about a computer controlling a swarm of a couple of hundred small toy aircraft each with a payload? We already have the software - it is in the games. We already have the platforms - your children play with them. All we need is a GPS, a small video camera and a computer chip to put them all together and change the face of warfare.

  WE ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN DO THAT.

  Convince people to put out the effort and make war a little more hellish and a little more balanced. Humans are really good at that. Israel and America have no monopoly on the tools and craft of war.

  Making toys into tools of war is something that our targets can learn from us. I thought those tiny UAVs were a bad idea because they are something that our enemies can too easily copy and mass produce.

  Whenever you decide to do something evil to someone, keep in mind, payback is a universal desire.

  —something stinks Read something stinks's other letters
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