Submitted by Jabrwock - December 27, 2007 at 2:32 pm -0500139.142.226.178
“Virginia Tech’s Cho was an obsessive high school player of the military-themed CounterStrike, according to the Washington Post.”

Which of course explains Cho's obsession with smoke grenades and running while holding a knife and hopping incessantly while simultaneously calling everyone a 'fag'... er...

the DOD is teaching an an entire generation of kids that war is glamorous, cool, desirable, and consequence-free.

Are soldiers actually taught that last bit? That there's consequences to shooting the "other" guy? I'm pretty sure soldiers don't get that kind of knowledge until they're out on the field of battle... And war has been glamorized and made cool since... well... forever. Soldiers were always the hero. The heroic last stand, the heroic charge, the stud in uniform wooing the ladies, the brilliant tactics that save the day and vanquish the enemy, etc... you know "pointy end go in other guy...", "the object is not to die for your country, it's to make the other poor bastard die for his..."

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