Does Linkin Park Support the War in Afghanistan?

Does Linkin Park Support the War in Afghanistan?

clinker|16 years ago|Electronic Arts

Xboxist writes: "Yes, EA has dump trucks full of money, but Linkin Park aren't exactly strapped for cash, and the group has never been particularly pro-war in the past. It makes us wonder if the group actually support the war, or whether they gave it much thought at all.

The new trailer for the game reads uncomfortably close to an Army recruitment video. It features hard charging special operatives kicking butt in Afghanistan (but no close-ups of actual blood). Given public distaste for the war, as well as the recent revelation by Wikileaks that special operatives are being used to assassinate targets on a shadowy 'kill list', it seems that the realities of this war are far from the good guy/bad guy dichotomies we are used to seeing in video games."

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