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… Pentagon says “Where do we sign?”

The story started here:

The makers of combat video games have unwittingly become part of a global propaganda campaign by Islamic militants to exhort Muslim youths to take up arms against the United States, officials said on Thursday.

And I’ve been following it with interest, including here:

Was an elite congressional intelligence committee shown video footage from an off-the-shelf retail game and told by the Pentagon and a highly-paid defense contractor that it was a jihadist creation designed to recruit and indoctrinate terrorists?It’s looking more and more like that is the case.

And, for anyone who recognises instantly the material quoted in the referenced video as being a one of many hilarious moments from Team America: World Police, here:

From the news story “”I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in Black hawk helicopters,” a narrator’s voice said”
Sounds familiar I bet, I can not believe CIA or whoever didn’t realize this was a joke.  Its got the entire voice over from world police in it, goats and all.  I kind of hope this makes tv news just to show how retarded the US intelligence community is.

I don’t have much to add to any of the viewpoints presented at these links, except to draw attention to the one point that is being mostly overlooked by many of the people reporting this story: $7 million?

$7 fucking million? Okay, on the surface it sounds like the consultants used were idiots, but really, aren’t they the geniuses in this situation? A bit of surface web-surfing, a few minutes of on-the-spot meeting blagging, and they get to walk off with all that taxpayer’s money?

There may be a whole bunch of laws protecting the west against “terrorism” but it interests me that incompetence and the brass balls to be arrogant about it continues to be rewarded.

(The other thing, of course, is that by now, the damage is already done. The vast majority of people will have taken that initial story at face value, and those of us who read the gaming and news-sites a bit deeper can get as smug as we want about it, the idea that “evil computer games are being used to brainwash the yoof” will have already saturated pretty deep. The same thing happened with the totally bogus Manhunt murder story.)