{"id":28463,"date":"2013-02-15T18:58:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T17:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/02\/15\/289129\/us-awards-video-game-mentality-analyst\/"},"modified":"2013-02-15T18:58:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T17:58:04","slug":"us-awards-video-game-mentality-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-awards-video-game-mentality-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"US awards video game mentality: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A political analyst says the US administration uses the concepts of sacrifice and heroism to deceive people and awards video game mentality, Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire idea of heroism, military awards, sacrifice, is totally a con. They have been selling this to people for, really, hundreds of years or longer,\u201d Gordon Duff said in an interview with Press TV on Friday.<\/p>\n

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He slammed the US government\u2019s issuing of awards to drone operators and cyber attack directors, saying the idea of giving a medal for being thousands of miles away from a battle front is nothing new in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\u201cYou could criticize, and certainly everyone is, the idea that the United States is going to be giving\u2026they call it \u2018the geek\u2019s medal\u2019, to cyber warriors,\u201d Duff added.<\/p>\n

He went on to say that the US administration is actually awarding the people who play video games with the lives of others.<\/p>\n

The analyst further pointed out that the American population has forgotten about all the wars going on as such wars are not reported in the papers and nobody mentions them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw nothing in the papers, no one wants to hear about it and certainly there is no interest in members of the military, their welfare, veterans and their families. We hear nothing of it and the population frankly, to be honest, could care less,\u201d Duff concluded.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon announced on February 13 that it is creating the Distinguished Warfare Medal to be awarded to those US troops who launch assassination drone strikes and direct cyber attacks.<\/p>\n

Outgoing US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that the US drone operators and those who direct cyber attacks would be eligible to receive the medal for their direct impact on a US military operations from afar.<\/p>\n

The United States uses its assassination drones in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia, claiming that they target \u2018terrorists.\u2019 The attacks, however, have mostly led to massive civilian casualties.<\/p>\n

TNP\/HGH\/SS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A political analyst says the US administration uses the concepts of sacrifice and heroism to deceive people and awards video game mentality, Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n

“The entire idea of heroism, military awards, sacrifice, is totally a con. They have been selling this to people for, really, hundreds of years or longer,” Gordon Duff said in an interview with Press TV on Friday.<\/p>\n

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He slammed the US government’s issuing of awards to drone operators and cyber attack directors, saying the idea of giving a medal for being thousands of miles away from a battle front is nothing new in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n“You could criticize, and certainly everyone is, the idea that the United States is going to be giving…they call it ‘the geek’s medal’, to cyber warriors,” Duff added.<\/p>\n

He went on to say that the US administration is actually awarding the people who play video games with the lives of others.<\/p>\n

The analyst further pointed out that the American population has forgotten about all the wars going on as such wars are not reported in the papers and nobody mentions them.<\/p>\n

“We saw nothing in the papers, no one wants to hear about it and certainly there is no interest in members of the military, their welfare, veterans and their families. We hear nothing of it and the population frankly, to be honest, could care less,” Duff concluded.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon announced on February 13 that it is creating the Distinguished Warfare Medal to be awarded to those US troops who launch assassination drone strikes and direct cyber attacks.<\/p>\n

Outgoing US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that the US drone operators and those who direct cyber attacks would be eligible to receive the medal for their direct impact on a US military operations from afar.<\/p>\n

The United States uses its assassination drones in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia, claiming that they target ‘terrorists.’ The attacks, however, have mostly led to massive civilian casualties.<\/p>\n

TNP\/HGH\/SS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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