I am a smart bomb and I am going down a chimney. The world is watching, I know, to see how smart I really am. Am I smart enough, for example, to make decisions for myself? Or am I not so smart that I don't object to being told what to do, not so smart that I don't mind being at the bottom of the chain of command? Am I smart enough to know what this war is about? I think I am. I think this war is being fought to defend our right to have this war. I am going to be blown up so that other, smarter bombs can be built. I am blowing up to keep McDonnell-Douglas happy and prosperous. I am defending our arsenal. I am defending an armada capable of destroying all forms of life planetwide many times over, a military so dangerous that it is ridiculous to think it could exist for any purpose more refined than direct suicide. When I was still on the assembly line I was hoping that my computer would be sent to a school so that the people could be smarter than the bombs, but I was installed in this nosecone and there was nothing to do about it.... Being smart I am able to understand why this is happening but also how it might affect the polls. I am halfway down the chimney now, and I know already that this is a mistake. This is not a military target, this must be a home or a store or a church of some kind. Will I be smart enough to figure out how to not explode? The world is watching on TV...

GWS.

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