Point #10: What Happened?

Reality TV has been a reliable cash crop for broadcast networks. So what would be more popular than a reality TV show that covers a war?
ABC knew this was a good idea and aired a reality show in 2003 called "Profiles from the Front Line," which documented Special Forces in the war on terror against Al-Qaeda. The show's last episode was on March 27th, almost a week after the war in Iraq began.
Ever since Gulf War II: This Time, It's Personal began, the focus has been on Iraq and not Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia. Which makes me wonder: what if the war in Afghanistan was a failed ABC show and the one in Iraq was real? All of a sudden, I'm supposed to forget about Osama Bin Laden and the Saudis and I'm supposed to focus on food for oil scandals, democracy in the Middle East and how Newsweek is the real enemy. What happened to the war on terror? Who's putting the Saudi's feet to the fire?
Does it take a real, ugly imperialist war in Iraq to stop ABC from making a fake war on terror?
Some might say I wish the war on terror was fake. On the contrary - I wish it was real. I hope Osama and Zarqawi and even the Saudi fundamentalists pay for what they did. That we have a fake war on terror and a real senseless war is outlandish and completely asinine.



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