The video war comes home. (videocassettes of Persian Gulf War coverage available) (editorial)

From: The Nation | Date: July 1, 1991 | Copyright information

Preceded by the stirring theme music from the movie Star Wars, a simulated Patriot missile intercepted a simulated Scud in the skies above New York City's East River. The bizarre aerial ballet was the climax of a fireworks display in honor of the warriors of Desert Storm that had opened with the strains of Thus Spake Zarathustra--better known to most Americans as the theme from the movie 2001 (and, appropriately, written by Richard Strauss, one of the Nazis' favorite composers). An observer remembered the story about how Ronald Reagan, who fought World War II exclusively in ...

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