War, its Good TV

It is a hard world out there, and no matter what your kindergarten teacher told you, dreams don't come true and you don't get what you wish for when you blow out those candles on your birthday cake. At least, that is the general rule of thumb, because today one of my dreams came true.
In the most astoundingly brilliant move of the year, Israel has not only declared all out war on Hamas, but has decided to film the whole thing and put it on a specially created Youtube channel!
We can now watch the children of God as they wage righteous war on their distant, considerably less amicable, cousins. From the Jerusalem Post comes THIS STORY, where the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) concedes that in their 2006 "Second Lebanon War" (did anyone know it was called that?) they failed to realize the power of the media in influencing the outcome of the conflict. We Americans have been painfully aware of the media's military power since Vietnam, and it seems a little silly that the Israelis didn't learn from our mistakes (a whole generation of people still know nothing about the Vietnam war beyond My Lai, napalmed children, and Platoon.) Part of the problem with Israel's struggle against Palestine and the rest of the Arab world has been the way the Muslims have been able to manipulate public world opinion through images of children tossing rocks at tanks, or through reports of rocket strikes that kill twenty women and children who were strategically placed as shields within key military targets.
Israel has, finally, found a solution: the internets.

"The blogosphere and new media are another war zone," said IDF Foreign Press Branch head Maj. Avital Leibovich. "We have to be relevant there."

Earlier this week the IDF proved to the international community the validity of this strategy by releasing a video that depicts Israeli missiles taking out a Hamas rocket launcher that is purposefully nestled in the center of a heavily populated residential area. Thanks to the surgical precision of the (US provided) Israeli military technology, the rockets were taken out without endangering "innocent" civilians, and thanks to the internets the world can see what total douche bags the Hamas terrorists are.
There is certainly a discussion to be had about the ethics/morality involved in turning war footage into tidbits of internet entertainment, but I believe America as a nation has already been desensitised to the prospect by a decade of cable news network "info-tainment."

The link to the Youtube Channel is HERE.
Below is a taste. Enjoy the future: