Ah sweet duplicity

I honestly wonder some days why I ever check CNN for news. Today I was watching the news videos and they had a story about a shocking video game that the militant group Hezbollah are selling at the Lebanon war museum. The game is supposedly a first person shooter that takes you through some of the conflicts in last years war with Israel. The newsman seamed shocked that they would make a game like this. The fact that you could shoot down Israeli helicopters and snipe Israeli soldiers in this game seemed barbaric to him. This is an American reporter of course, I know he must be shocked. It's not like we have any games here that would be about actual events during a war. Well there was that game America's Army, wherein you start at boot camp and move on to a desert conflict, that one came out after Desert Storm but that is probably a coincidence. Oh and then we had a game called, I think it was, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down but when have our troops ever been in Somalia? Of course there was a game, maybe even two, that took you to the battlefields of Vietnam. I have often wondered why these companies don't make a video game about actual historic events from WWII, they probably wouldn't sell very well is why. Oh never mind I guess there have been a couple of games like that, one or two at least. I think that one thing Americans don't understand is that this Hezbollah and Israel conflict is a battle that has been going on for several years and a game like this is just a marketing ploy to glorify war and build patriotism. I know it's kinda sneaky but not everyone can be as straightforward as Americans. I am glad we don't need to resort to things like this just to get people thinking patriotically.