Sticks and Stones are boring, Why not Drones?

After some time off to recuperate and lick his wounds, he took a few pictures of the gaping hole that destroyed that ammo rack of the Fire Worg Mk. III Leopard Battle Tank.



"Bloodeh hell, I know for a fac' that isn't GLA damage! Too large a hole, and for what? Tha GLA is crazy enough to throw a 'nade down tha hatch, not intelligent enough to go far tha ammo rack!" He thought.



He shook his head and had some of the engineers start making the repairs and modifying the angles to make sure it doesn't happen again. After a moment, he went to the waiting room  and grabbed a Styrofoam cup of sweetened black coffee and watched the news, to which he saw a report from the white house.





"Good evening America, Canada, Mexico...To the free world. Tonight I have an announcement to make. It has come to my attention that the conflict against rebel cells in Africa has taken its toll with the last administration having nearly a thousand casualties and injuries.Commanders at the Pentagon assure me that thees men were brave, they signed up to fight for the NAU. To fight for the liberty of others and if the needs be....To die for it.I understand that and mean no disrespect but I am not a fighter.I do wrestle with my old crew-members from NASA when time allows it."

The crowd chuckles as Steven cleans his glasses.

"But I did not agree to sending the young boys to me as commander in chief to dangerous zones. Especially when we have the technology and the opportunity to assure that we as the NAU or our client states/Allies In Africa never have to bury one of their own again.Yes Ladies and Gentlemen I am speaking of drones.Unmanned weapons ready to push the front lines on the push of a button, Ready to take the bullets meant for flesh and bone with nothing more then circuits and steel to offer.I have enacted a new bill that when passed or if it passes will commission a huge construction project of an automated drone base in Zimbabwe.This factory will be receiving raw materials and constructing our armies. There they can be deployed on the front line on multiple ways.Yes ladies and gentlemen I know your concerns on unmanned weapons. It is a policy started from the Bush Administration but it prospered under Obamas cabinet. As a great thinker once said: "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B. F. Skinner: We will have to ask that question once those who wish us ill face our metal. Now that's over with, I will have a dinner in the presidential dining hall. All members of the press are invited along with their questions. God bless you all tonight, our armed forces and God bless the NAU. Good night."



Jack Malcolm clenched his hand down, and soon cracked his Styrofoam cup, not even caring that the coffee he was drinking was scorching hot as he went to his laptop to do yet another youtube video, this time, publicly.





Jack Malcolm:

To those of you seeing this, hello, my name is Jack Malcolm of the ECA Tank division. I've listened to the news about Steven Freephoenix speaking about Africa. How'ver, I will say this now. Do not believe the lies. The Global Liberation Army, while the enemy still, was not at that refinery, there were no rebels! My men and I were there during the incursion. The Global Liberation Army does not use drones. Their vehicular arsenal is far from that of a paper tiger. They don't use Flash Bang Grenades.

Call me mad, call me crazy, it matters not but I know tha truth that day, and so does me tank crew. The GLA, while not innocent on a lot of things, are not at fault for the North African Incursion! The members and security of that facility were prepared to leave at a moment's notice to be pulled out of that area to be placed everywhere else from Greenland to Oceania.

Tha same people who speak for peace also use bloodshed to get their point across. I say again, do not believe the lies that the United States media gives you about North Africa!

(OOC: Omar Al-Ghazi , remember, you started this potential flame-war)

Bullettimecommander: You are a typical, puffed up, ignorant man-boy that is the typical stain of the United States teen aged youth.  This man has said nothing about the United States as a whole except for invading that facility in North Africa. Either go back to school you river-swimming pike, or go back to playing that...."Halo" or "Call of duty" or "Modern Warfare" you seem to hyperventilate about, and let the real men fight this war.
Or if you have the gall, join the army yourself.

yingyingthepanda4207: This is my impression of the world today in comparison to 2011:
2011 US: 'Murica, fek yeah!
2047 US: We are the most technologically advanced nation on Earth!
2011 Russia: All your Ukraine are belong to us
2047 Russia: Plz help us. We're actually doing shit to help the world now!
2011 China: We control economy! Bow before us!
2047 China: We still control economy! Still bow before us!
2011 Europe: Whine, complain, whine!
2047 Europe: Whine, complain, whine!
My point is that everyone seems to know what they're talking about, but you guys seem to be whining about a lot of shit nowadays. You guys all jealous that everyone's doing better than your "alliance?"

madrussian2407:
@magikarp Well someone sounds like an angry communist. Go die with your Collectivist brothers, you insecure 12 year-old.
(OOC: YouTube comments tend to go this way, don't they? XD)

8mingWarrior8: @drunkenscotsman591 Homeless and starving? Have you been hiding under a rock, you ignorant beardog mother. We build 20-story apartments in a day, and our modern rice-fields provide more than enough for China. At least we fight our enemies, unlike you guys who carry on the french tradition of surrender.

Enigma: So, you believe the ignorance that your own government tells you? You Europeans are all just the same: morons! Imbecilic quislings! With how ignorant you are on the history of the modern world, you seem to have forgotten that it was your group of nations that dealt with the GLA terrorists in the first place! Remember everyone, this is the group of nations that worked with the man who nuked two cities!

Enigma:
@drukenscotsman591 Oh please. Your threats are about as full of shit as the Indian Ocean or the promises by Ukraine to put the New Containment Unit on Chernobyl! So don't call yourself a lion when you are really a little mouse!