Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Thoughts

Video is through the link. http://www.collateralmurder.com/
I think it is hard to justify the latter half of the video, where they shoot up the van evacuating wounded. However, I do feel like the arrows identifying the two journalists are more of a play on emotion than reliable identification - especially after the shooting starts.

How about the role of Wikileaks in this whole thing? They somehow obtained the video, used supercomputers in Iceland to unencrypt the whole thing. Meanwhile, various governments were shadowing them and allegedly threatening them.

Lastly, this kind of gun-camera footage, the advent of drone aircraft, remote control war. What are the effects of the (for lack of a better term) video-game-ization of warfare?

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