Robotics Update

Robots will rapidly replace human soldiers over the next decade:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202191_pf.html

"Armed robots will all be snipers. Stone-cold killers, every one of them. They will aim with inhuman precision and fire without human hesitation. They will not need bonuses to enlist or housing for their families or expensive training ranges or retirement payments. Commanders will order them onto battlefields that would mean certain death for humans, knowing that the worst to come is a trip to the shop for repairs."

Could this mean the end of genocide and conventional warfare? A new Pax Americana? Or bring fictional Skynet to reality.