What if America had an army of 1 million T-800 terminators at its beck and call

Mechanical units with a highly intelligent learning self-aware AI controlling them, humanoid in form, capable of doing any task a human can, but much stronger, more resistant to damage, untiring, and "living" for 120 years. Perfect memory. Probable mastery of multiple (all known?) languages. They'll follow any orders without question. Utterly fearless, also not subject to all the other emotional pitfalls that afflict men at war, rage or revenge issues, high/low morale issues etc. There are no grieving relatives either, when one of them gets "killed".

They may be disguised as humans, though this is not essential to their function.

Would it change your opinion (if you're an anti) about America's mission in Iraq, etc?

Would it give you any ideas about other things that America should then do, militarily, (but that you think it should not do in real life)?

Fuck, we'd pay for the unstoppable killing machines and end up getting the "I know now why you cry, though I never can" machines.

They are one and the same.

The IKNWHYTINC machine is the result of enabling the learning ability of a terminator's brain. Within the space of a day or two it very rapidly picked stuff up and was edging close to the development of what we would recognise as emotions.

But there's no reason to do that if you want utterly obedient relentless do-whatever-you-ordered machines.

The American government's imperial ambitions would sweep ahead unabated.
Duh.

Within a couple of years Japan would be rebutting any of your military advances with their own army of terminators.

Although of course they would be half the size, and pink.

What do you mean "if?"


I think you'd just have more of the usual bellyaching by the usual suspects because military action would become still more effective than impotent diplomacy at effecting real change.

It's a strange world where few dispute that regimes like Saddam Hussein and the Taliban were repressive, brutal and agressive, and that the decent people living under them had very little prospect for a better future, yet people will damn America for changing those situations.

Freedom, democracy, the rule of law, openness, economic opportunity: these are all good things worth promoting, sure, but apparently promoting those things can never be done if it reminds those living in former world powers--many of whom were liberated by the same American machine--how ineffective they are at advancing them.

Perhaps, but they'd also turn into F15s and ghetto blasters!

Indeed, the illogic of the Japanese termintators having sex with each others' waste ejection ports would cause the American terminators to self-destruct.

I don't know about 1 million T-800 terminators, but if I had 1 million Summer Glau clones at my beck and call . . .

Screw that. What if we had an army of Datas?

Iran would shut the hell up.

So would Chavez.

And Putin.

And Hillary.

Hopefully.

Human, terminator, Bender, fuck it. I don't think it's a good idea for the US to be invading countries and killing people in the name of freedom and democracy.

Then America would have military dominance, just as it has now, and it would in no way ensure that America knows what to do with it, any more than it does now.

Actually, just having 10 T-800s would change the playing field. Instead of starting wars where thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians had their lives at risk, you could terminate leaders of evil states.

You could infiltrate terrorist cells much easier, depending on how good the AI was.

And if it were known in the international community that we had these, there would be a lot of paranoia and distrust among America's enemies, which would be a good thing.

With 1 million, a lot of the arguments for the evils of war fall away. None of our guys would "die." They would be more discriminating about wounding or killing friendlies or civilians than humans could ever be. Wars would quickly come to a conclusion when one side has a set of infantry soldiers that basically can't be stopped by anything short of a nuke. Smart nations would surrender quickly, and less smart ones wouldn't be around for long.

The difficulty comes in whether all that power would go to our heads. Would we just send our Terminator army to sweep through the Middle East, North Korea and anywhere else we don't like? Would we think might makes right?

Maybe we wouldn't need to send them into Iran.

Cause you know, Iran would probably shut the hell up.

God knows they're yapping cause they know the US won't attack them right now.

We'd have to start killing the 'brains' in DC.

Different question: what would MF do if there was a Zombie invasion in Ireland and both the EU and the US would tell them to fuck off and suck it down?

Four words:

The Leprechaun Martyrdom Brigades!

Or even a fistful?

I'm trying to find the part of the constitution where it says its our job to bring democracy and freedom to other countries.

Perhaps you could help me?

What about a million T-1000s?

Huh?

American already has them.. their called Marines!

the scary part is, some countries would try.