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Robert Rittenhouse writes:

> New technology actually brings a sense of the reality of war closer to
> the armchair types--witness discussion of Vietnam as television war and
> military censorship in the current conflict.

Rob, the Vietnam war went on for years in 'my' living room thanks to
technology.  I'd contend that the war ended when there were no more ways
out of the war for the middle class and the middle class body bags
started to come home en mass.  Without the body bags, the Vietnam War
was entertainment for a society which had a serious media habit.

Current technology has made videos of missiles that fly down airshafts
and chase civilians across bridges ..  very, very entertaining.
Remember the luckiest man in Iraq?  Mario almost got 'em.

I did witness Vietnam as television and I just witnessed the Gulf War as
Nintendo. Maybe the next war will be a simulation.

Thom