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‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare,’ With Its Waterboarding and Child Killers, Is Controversial as Hell

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The latest edition of “Call of Duty” is problematic, to say the least.

Imagine you’re a video-game developer. You’ve put your character, Farah Karim, a freedom fighter in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Urzikstan, under the capture of Roman Barkov, a Russian general with no qualms about committing war crimes on any scale.

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