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Fortress America: When Gaming and Politics Collide
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<blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 5754215" data-attributes="member: 548"><p>It does touch a little bit of a nerve, because though I supported the effort I thought Iraq suffered from a lot of "mission creep" that didn't really have to be there. Of course, the news media was around to make every success look like it didn't matter (or wasn't a success at all), and every failure catastrophic... the word I hear from actual military people who were there is much different from what I hear from the media.</p><p></p><p>What I dispute is that the U.S. would do any such thing (whoever's in charge). It's like a company trip where all the software engineers ride a plane to their party site, and the pilot announces the plane is using software created by that company. Most of the passengers leave in a panic, except one guy sits calmly in his seat. The pilot chuckles and asks that last guy why he didn't leave with the others. He replies, "This plane isn't going to crash... in fact it isn't going anywhere!" I feel basically the same about the U.S.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Squire James, post: 5754215, member: 548"] It does touch a little bit of a nerve, because though I supported the effort I thought Iraq suffered from a lot of "mission creep" that didn't really have to be there. Of course, the news media was around to make every success look like it didn't matter (or wasn't a success at all), and every failure catastrophic... the word I hear from actual military people who were there is much different from what I hear from the media. What I dispute is that the U.S. would do any such thing (whoever's in charge). It's like a company trip where all the software engineers ride a plane to their party site, and the pilot announces the plane is using software created by that company. Most of the passengers leave in a panic, except one guy sits calmly in his seat. The pilot chuckles and asks that last guy why he didn't leave with the others. He replies, "This plane isn't going to crash... in fact it isn't going anywhere!" I feel basically the same about the U.S. [/QUOTE]
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