From the grauniad, the paper copy even: the US military are posting their war on youtube: MNFIRAQ (the one I watched was this). I find this completely weird and disturbing. And it certainly doesn't look like the end of combat operations. Can it be long before we end up with live feeds from helmet cameras, and then probably online voting for "should he pull the trigger"? and some sort of merge with online gaming. I'm too old for this. Retirement beckons me...
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