Lessons learned

Ran into a film of a gunship attack in Afghanistan (wmv, via Krikorian, and you can follow his trail from there). His interest was in how much this looked like a video game, only more tame. He’s very right. One wonders why the Army’s first-person shooter game was so clean–eschewing gore–when the soldiers in this video are so clearly pleased by seeing a body torn in two.

Lessons learned: when attacked by gunships at night, get to a mosque or play dead.