War as Videogame
Linked in the quote below is a video and write-up from the Huffington Post about a recently Freedom of Information Act released video showing the murder of innocents, including journalists, in Iraq in 2007 by the U.S. military. I am not sure I have seen a more disturbing example of the similarities between gameplay and screen-based, abstracted warfighting.
Unveiling the video at the National Press Club on Monday morning, Assange said the helicopter crew approached its job as if it were a video game, not something involving human lives. Their desire was simply to kill,” he said. “Their desire was to get high scores on that computer game.”
