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Originally Posted by FOG3
So we're somehow stupid, because we aren't playing petty propaganda games?
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Fog,
There is nothing petty about the "propaganda games" in relationship to the current (and many past, for that matter) campaigns. Without the efforts of the propagandists both Allied and enemy, it is most likely that neither the Allied armies nor the armies of the Jihad would be engaged in Iraq.
Simply put, the pieces that need to moved in the game are so massive that force and finance have, as predicted, been unable to move them; they need to be persuaded/conned/otherwise bamboozled into moving of their own accord.
Assembled Officers and Gentlemen,
Continuing On Topic, the Brachman piece typifies one of the weaknesses that the "good guys" have consistently demonstrated in the years leading up to and through the current fight: it is behind the curve.
While Mr. Brachman's article is informative and Abu Yahya's assertions are something I certainly agree with, they are still coming late. What Brachman is highlighting is the same sort of stuff we were discussing with our instructors as Freshman two decades ago. However, it is certainly better late then never and we will be closer rather than further from victory and better off as a result of this sort of thing.
If you will permit a bit of speculation, the forthcoming problem as I see it in all of this mess has all the appearances of being the sequencing of targets.
Between Madison Avenue and Hollywood the United States is certainly well endowed in the propagadizing department.
To further, speculatively expound, switching the object of the attentions of the American propagandists from domestic targets to the enemy's target masses is going to cause some influential people to lose political and economic power which makes it a very hard sell to the Powers that Be.
Sorry to be such a stranger kind of regards (hope ya'll enjoyed the peace and quiet
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William