Iran, Archbishop of Chicago: ‘Reducing war to a video game is disgusting’

Rome, 8 March (LaPresse) – ‘A real war with real death and real suffering treated like a video game is disgusting.’ So said the Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, in “A Call to Conscience” published on the archdiocese’s website. While more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombing by US and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account posted a video on Thursday evening of scenes from popular action films linked to real footage of the attacks in their war against Iran. The video was titled: “Justice American Style,”‘ Cupich wrote, adding: ’Hundreds of people died, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including dozens of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day. Six US soldiers were killed. They are also dishonoured by that social media post. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, and many millions more are terrified throughout the Middle East. This horrific depiction shows that we live in an age where the distance between the battlefield and the living room has been drastically reduced. The moral crisis we are facing is not only about war itself, but also about how we, the observers, view violence, because war has now become a spectator sport or a strategy game.