I found Avital Ronell's article really hard to read, as she weaved in and out from plain speech to metaphor, and seemed at some points to hop from topic to topic, all under a proposed topic of the effects of VR.  Despite this however, I remained convinced that she had something pertinent and possibly quite wise to say.

I did pick up on a main point of hers on the sterilizing of war and hence the disconnect created between not just the public and what was occuring but even between the actual soldiers and the reality of their work.  She also made the bold move of terming what America was doing in the Gulf war as Fascist and even implied that "Desert Storm" was reminiscent of Nazi philosophy.

“In his essay entitled “Our History,” French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy has argued that an “ideology must be called ‘fascist’ in the general sense in which themes of spiritual and national regeneration, of the vigorous recovery of health through firmness and discipline, correspond to a fascist or fascistic vision of things.”  What this means basically is that in the name of symbolic health, a unity of world that sees its image in wholesomeness and the project of renewal, we have waged war on what was repeatedly represented as degenerate, sickly, something that carried the threat of contagion.  In this regard, America has been carrying out its newly transcendentalized project of killing the unwell, the contaminated.  The enemy is imagined as being disorderly, inefficient, tactically illiterate, dysfunctional; and to a certain degree the projected solution, cybernetics, promises to overcome such instabilities.