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May 08, 2006
More things to worry about
Did you hear about the robot helicopter armed with a shotgun?
Law enforcement and the military will put it to good use, I'm sure, much to the dismay of bad guys everywhere. It's the more lethal NEW! IMPROVED! version that's got security experts worried.
The android whirlygig carrying a big bomb could prove to be the perfect, near-unstoppable suicide bomber.
If you thought the 12-gauge shotgun-wielding AutoCopter was bad news, imagine one of the little menaces in the hands of a terrorist and strapped with several pounds of explosives -- or worse, biological, chemical, or radiological payloads. Several experts are warning that we are nearly defenseless against such attacks, even though terrorists have already shown a propensity for using such tactics in the Middle East and South America, and are known to have purchased so-called "drone" airplanes capable of high-precision navigation even over long distances.
One scenario that is particularly disturbing involves a fleet of drones or robotic helicopters launched from an off-shore freighter, sent en masse to attack a large gathering like a sporting event where stampeding from panic would likely cause more deaths than the bombs themselves.
The Pentagon is supposedly working on an drone-killing drone of its own, called Peregrine, that would patrol the skies and intercept any hostile aircraft -- but the main problem seems to be finding, not destroying these things, and you'd need a whole lot of Peregrines to cover every potential target in the US.
The reality is that it's impossible to prevent all attacks; the best we can do is carry the fight to our enemies, hunt them down and kill them on foreign soil, far away from our shores. That's why it's so important to secure our borders and improve the intelligence gathering capabilites of the C.I.A., which seems more dedicated to fighting the Bush Administration then it is in finding and killing the bad guys.
Posted by Mike Lief at May 8, 2006 11:24 AM
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I hope that we don't all learn the hard way that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Posted by: Sbarro at May 9, 2006 07:18 PM