http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_AFRICA_US_TROOPS_ANALYSIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-14-20-59-46

The ENTIRE reason we invented :-) hiv was to accelerate the african population problem.

As such, it should not be put out to pasture, banned or delayed until the war is over, as Meredith has suggested

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100827/ENTERTAINMENT/100829566?p=2&tc=pg

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Video games, memorials to the dead, all before the wars are over! How very twenty-first century! Epic empire fail.

Electronic Arts' upcoming shooter “Medal of Honor” has started taking flak because pundits and politicians are upset that gamers can play as the Taliban.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100827/ENTERTAINMENT/100829566?Title=Politics-shadow-Medal-of-Honor-

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The whole “play as the Taliban” thing is essentially the digital equivalent of the same kind of “cops and robbers” or “cowboys and Indians” kids have been playing since the dawn of time, or at least since the dawn of cowboys.

It doesn't paint the Taliban in a sympathetic light, or require you to detonate a bomb in a crowded marketplace full of American civilians.

Given that past games have had players taking on the roles of Nazis and Stalinists, it's hard to see what the big deal is.

In a widely quoted response statement, EA's Amanda Taggart spoke for most gamers when she said, “Most of us having been doing this since we were 7 — if someone's the cop, someone's gotta be the robber, someone's gotta be the pirate and someone's gotta be the alien.”

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Medal of Honor” isn't “Six Days in Fallujah,” whose developers courted controversy a couple years ago by boasting that their quest for authenticity led them to consult with Iraqi insurgents while developing their game.

(Nice PR)

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Afghanistan,then and now.

They had lots of great SAMs and the targets were pretty vulnerable.

Now their SAMs are mostly decayed. But that's what they need --

the US is completely dependant on air power.

Or, they need anti aircraft guns, or at least snipers trained in

ballistics.