The Liberation of Kuwait
In the early ’90s, the general public had been fed a great deal of propaganda
about the fierceness of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard, one of the top
fighting forces in the world — though, as it turns out, one with a glaring
vulnerability to air power. In their successful attempt to oust the Iraqi army
from Kuwait (being careful to leave Saddam in power) through an overwhelming
display of power, the coalition of the West in operation Desert Storm soon
found their grizzled opponents only too eager to surrender and save their
hides. This program commemorates their efforts, indicating a line of happily
compliant soldiers, alive, in mental contrast to the stilled parade of “crispy
critters” along the turkey shoot of the Highway of Death back to Basra.
To drive home the point of what a straw man the opposing forces ended up
being, the program runs through to completion upon execution without any input
needed from the player; however, if the author was more prescient, he might
have instructed the program to lie dormant for twelve years and then fire up
some horrifying no-win program like Forbidden.exe or Punishment for what John
McCain suggests might be ten thousand years.
The Liberation of Kuwait