it's the war, stupid

So, I woke up this morning and the first thing I watched was the Wikileaks video showing American soldiers killing what turned out to be a couple of Reuters photographers and others ('others' might be threatening or non-threatening, I guess we will never know) back in 2007. It was, well, not the best way to start the day. I was disgusted. I wasn't disgusted because I was shocked; rather, I was disgusted because I realised how much I wiped the war out of my thoughts, since living in Australia. While this video is from three years ago, it made me painfully aware of the present.

I think Glen Greenwald hits the nail squarely on the head.