The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

adversaries aims Americans aphrodisiacs Apocalypse Arab masses Baudrillard argues Baudrillard's essays become believe blackmail bombs challenge cold war collapse combat confrontation consensus corpses Courchevel critical deception decoy defeat degree zero democracy desert destroy deterrence Eastern Bloc Eastern Europe electrocuted electronic enemy entire escalation everything fact fake function global Gulf conflict Gulf War hostage hyperreal hysteric illusion images Iran Iraq irruption Islam Israelis Jean Baudrillard kind Kuwait live logic longer means mercenary military missile never non-event non-war Norris once operations passage to action perfect semblance Peripeteias Persian Gulf perverse effects played political postmodern powerless programmed promotion pure real event reality remains ruse Saddam Hussein Salman Rushdie screens self-deterrence sense simulacrum simulation spectacle speculative strategy striptease stupidity symbolic take place tanks target television terror Timisoara tion took place trompe l'oeil truth uncertainty unfolding unleashed unreal victory violence virtual weapons West Western World Order