Not that I intend to start another retarded political thread

[SwiftSpear]

http://www.redress.cc/palestine/jcook20100724

I'm not entirely or even slightly shocked.

[Gota]

I'd love to see this video ...

[Teutooni]

Why didn't you watch it then? It was embedded halfway through the page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeT_KLuCdug

[Gota]

Haha no i missed it
Well some things he says are controversial but the Oslo accords were indeed crazy.

[PicassoCT]

What always scared me the most in the middle east conflicts is that lack of new ideas - beside suicide bombing, building primitiv explosives and that half-disguised racism (all foreigners & unbelievers brought evil down upon us -they have to go), i mean comon, in vietnam, in every other poor nation faced with a asymmetrical conflict, new tactics came alive, constantly challenging there occupants till they were defeated or found a diplomatic sollution, because costs were to high.

I once tried to write a short story, from israeli point of view, how that conflict might look fifty years into the future, i painted it in a lot of scifi-colour, and made the palestinians have some elaborated lowtech-traps (tank-pitfalls, collapsing on comandos-buildings) such stuff, had to scrap the whole story, because pals were unrealistic. Just think of that fuel-crisis they have every other day because israels embargo there transports - now to anyone halfrational, this would mean to encourage decentralisation, loads and loads of smallpowerplants, not depending on oil, but wind, solar, sewage, well even humans in a hamsterwheel if you have enough of that.
But well, guess its easier way out to protest aloud, and call for shiped in onionopinionreinforcements.
They might reproduce a lot, which is good news for we in the west dont, but they are stuck in terms of development, and once peak oil is passed, we ll have a v├Âlkerwanderung of the poor, guess thats the day israel solves its border problems or is dissolved, until then - great show in the middle east, great drama, lots of professional actors, you dont dominate the news with three wounded if you arent good.


PandaPS:

Any region with a cyber robot from the future for a leader will always feel safe.

Not if the cyber robots are like this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-z54EP0 ... W8HG-BzD2o

LOL.. way to true, should be more carefull what to wish for..

[Gota]

I wonder what would happen to military in 50 years,most of it,if not all of it,will probably be automated.
Even now there are automated planes automated patrol cars,automated gun turrets...
In 50 years time any advanced military force will have a very low amount of human casualties(if at all)even in combat that involves large forces.

Imagine the Iraqi war without any American casualties...

[PicassoCT]

Yes, thats quite a comfortabel opionion, you dont have to bother with those people at all, that hazardous manmaterial can be handeld all the way by robots. But you know, right now, there are imigrants from Tschade entering israel, giving a fuck about drones, or conflicts, and you cant stop them travelling. And there are arab Israelis, who are taxed for robots they hate.. and i know iraquis working at the riverharbour at my hometown, and they handle thos cranes, that handle those goods, that could be used to built drones, and what we unleash today can be turned against us tomorrow, just for solving problems with the simple, the comfortable sollution, of not solving anything for another day.