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War, and the... excitement of war?
MOYERS: And yet you say in your book that the first Gulf War, that we made war fun.

HEDGES: For those who weren't there. I was with the U.S. Marine Corps and they hated CNN. They hated that flag-waving jingoism that dominated the coverage, or dominated so much of the coverage?all those abstract terms that create the excitement back home become obscene to those who are in combat.

This is from an interview with Chris Hedges, former New York Times war correspondent, in whcih he discusses just what war actually is. Not TV pictures and cute little graphic reports, in case you were thinking that's what war is. (found on Metafilter)