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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
I'm not trying to reopen the thread, but I would like to tell all of you armchair combat leaders that it isn't a game, it isn't easy. there isn't a reset button, there's not an option to go to the next level.
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Ironic statement, given that many commentators on that video say that the attack was treated exactly like a video game-- this wasn't a heat of the moment decision-- this was minutes of sitting around watching people from a safe position while chatting with friends, coolly killing from that safe distance by pressing a button, and then having a good laugh with their buds about watching people die-- and then, AFTER the attack, simply cold-bloodedly murdering the people who attempted to rescue the injured man. You want to tell someone that war isn't a video game? Tell it to the kids behind those cameras laughing it up with their pals.
You think the forum was politically correct on that issue? Yes, it was-- people were far, FAR more polite about it than the reaction of utter contempt found on other forums I read.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...d_it_is_us.php
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/05...ideo-of-u.html