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Air-launched cruise missiles—the weapon of choice in Nintendo warfare—cost about two million bucks to fire, and, at the time of writing, Slobo has taken about 80 of them. He only has to absorb another 70 and that’s it: We’ll have none left. So the Pentagon has now asked Congress for an extra $51 million to convert their stock of cruise missiles with nuclear warheads into cruise missiles with conventional explosives. In other words, the U.S. military is now demanding additional taxpayer monies to degrade its own capability. To some of us, de-nuking our cruise missiles so that they’re safe enough to lob at Belgrade is almost a textbook definition of an unnecessary expense.

6) Old war aim: Win!

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Air-launched cruise missiles—the weapon of choice in Nintendo warfare—cost about two million bucks to fire, and, at the time of writing, Slobo has taken about 80 of them. He only has to absorb another 70 and that’s it: We’ll have none left. So the Pentagon has now asked Congress for an extra $51 million to convert their stock of cruise missiles with nuclear warheads into cruise missiles with conventional explosives. In other words, the U.S. military is now demanding additional taxpayer monies to degrade its own capability. To some of us, de-nuking our cruise missiles so that they’re safe enough to lob at Belgrade is almost a textbook definition of an unnecessary expense.

6) Old war aim: Win!