For those of you who don't remember it (Christ, you might actually be too young), Six Days in Fallujah was going to be a realistic shooter set in the Battle of Fallujah. The game itself was announced in 2009, approximately 5 years after what we now call The Second Battle of Fallujah, and also about 5 years from would be around the war's approximate end.
The game was originally going to be developed and published by US Marines who had fought in the Battle itself. The purpose of the game was to be a decent tactical modern military shooter, but also to be a vehicle for telling the stories of the Marines on the ground who had actually fought in the battle.
Back in 2009 I was well aware of this game, and I said that video games as a way of bringing the stories of real people to life would likely be a real concept that could be done going forward. It may not be exactly "With The Old Breed", but for servicemen who grew up playing video games, this might be one of the best ways to really explain what it's like.
As I slowly age, I realize more and more as a veteran now, that these stories that are the most important moments of your life will be lost to time and will only exist as distant memories that only you, your brothers, and your enemies, will ever truly understand or even remember. The most intense moment of your life will be at an intersection that didn't have a name, and no one could recognize today.
I feel like after Medal Of Honor: Warfighter was released, and one of the Special Forces operators negatively sanctioned for releasing classified information to the game developers in order to develop a level (I think it was a literal Black Op mission in the streets of Pakistan that was never supposed to be known about), I've always felt that video games as a story telling medium for real events would be something that has a provable creative demand.
However, Six Days was canceled, and I've been surprised to see that people are not mentioning why it was canceled.
Simply put, Fox News, along with the Corporate Media Establishment (and possibly with what I suspect were elements of the US government not wanting to have any potential embarrassment for a war that had not been going well) created a moral outrage about the game. Fox News did a hit piece on the developers and accused them of trying to dishonor and trivialize the the lives of the soldiers and Marines who were killed in the battle... despite the fact that the game was explicitly being developed with veterans of the battle to tell their stories. And despite the fact that the developers did not want to make the game explicitly political.
11 years later, and the developers are trying to republish the game, and IGN... who originally made passive attempts at reporting on the game and defending it, seem to be aiming to do what Fox News did a decade ago.
Six Days in Fallujah is the most concrete evidence I can imagine of how full circle the Culture War has come. I consider it a vindication of my choices so far.
A few of my colleagues at work are actually retarded enough to make that argument AFTER the recent airstrikes.
These Democrats actually said that the airstrikes were about promoting peace and that Trump disengaging in the Middle East made us all unsafe.
Neocons most likely have a permanent erection. Through the brain crippling of TDS, they achieved the sad fact that now a majority of leftists actually support forever wars in the Middle East because Biden can somehow do no wrong.
Unsurprising given the brain rot, but seriously? Trump is the first president in my life who did not get us involved in any new foreign conflicts
Ranked in my opinion from best to worst:
Clinton - Haiti, the Balkans, Sudan Bush 1 - Iraq 1.0 Obama - the Arab Coup, oh wait I mean Spring. Bush 2 - Iraq 2.0 and Afghanistan
You can argue all you want about whether or not any of those operations were justified or not if you want, you can argue that Trump should have tried to do more to disengage the US from places if you want, but the fact is that for 3 decades it was just constant escalation of Team America World Police sticking it's dick into other countries private business. And yet, the first president in years to try to calm stuff down - which people on the left were shouting from the rooftops that we needed to do from 2002-2008 - is the one making us unsafe?
Can someone tell me why the US military keeps staying in the middle east when they've been tgere for decades and there's STILL no plan to conquer it.
https://archive.ph/cialb https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/16/trump-us-military-peace-agreement-war-afghanistan/
After growing up and coming of age amid all that crap I say let them blow themselves up all they want. The American people got nothing good from those "peace" actions.
Not after you conquer it and turn it into a vassal.
Plus accusations of access to oil
But just let it implode on itself, there’s no reason to stay involved
I actually made the argument on T_D many months ago that Trump is objectively one of the least war-making presidents post Vietnam, and probably post WW2.
The only person who comes close is Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. And, that mostly depends on whether we can lay the blame of the CIA's actions in Angola at the feet of Jimmy Carter, because it's not clear that he knew what the CIA was up to.
Airstrikes of peace. Good. GOOOOOD