How to Fight for the Taliban Without Getting Detained As an Enemy Combatant
3rd September 2010
Medal of Honor, of course. (Can we talk ‘oxymoron’ now?)
The latest installment in the Medal of Honor video game series, scheduled to be released by Electronic Arts next month, is set in Afghanistan and allows players to fight for the Taliban in the online version. That feature has attracted criticism from politicians such as British Defense Minister Liam Fox, who called the game “thoroughly un-British,” and at least one mother of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan, who said it is “disrespectful” to base a game on an ongoing war.
Criticism? Whatever for? It’s just a game! And they can make money with it! What could be more American than that?