In interviews, they said that after the system failed to achieve this crucial discrimination goal against mock targets in its first two flight tests, the Pentagon substituted simpler and fewer decoys that would be easier for the antimissile weapon to recognize.
"It's important to put the Pulse shooting in historical context not to minimize the terror wreaked by a disturbed and bigoted individual's easy access to military-grade weapons, but to recognize that gun culture in the U.S. has gone hand in hand with violent hatred for a long time," USC law professor Ariela Gross wrote Tuesday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. .
And how, skeptics wonder, can a "fully autonomous weapon" be taught to recognize soldiers attempting to surrender or those already wounded and no longer a threat?
Last month, Mr. Sutton's department started offering four courses a week to teach police officers, firefighters, emergency medical workers and others how to recognize weapons of mass destruction.
Such a declaration also might persuade those nations whose attitudes toward Iran's possession of nuclear weapons have been ambivalent to recognize just how dangerous Iran's current policies are and seek to change them.
Much of the most useful advice - the first aid training, being taught how to recognize various weapons and munitions, deciphering which direction shooting is coming from, survival basics - could be done very cheaply over the course of a day.
Using the 60-vote hurdle so early in the process allowed Democrats to prevent the passage of an amendment mandating that any state with a concealed-weapons law, no matter how rigorous, would have to recognize the concealed-weapons permit of residents from any other state.
The support of President Fini for the true principles of the Internet, and the leadership of Italy in getting the Nobel Committee to recognize this "weapon of mass construction" is a model the rest of the world should follow.
And maybe that Justice will be able, like Jackson, to recognize a loaded weapon left lying around the White House when he or she sees one.
The worst consequence of the war hawks, however, is their failure to recognize our greatest weapon in the modern era -- the soft power of American ideals.
