We're Losing The Propaganda War
Donny had a busy day today. First up:
Coupled with the resurgence of the fact that America's has tortured sordid the enemy, under Rumsfeld's watch and perhaps under his orders to do so.
Why are the extremists winning propaganda war?
It has less to do with American's being slow to embrace new propaganda technology.
And much much more to do with America's being too-swift to arm the extremists with ridiculous, hipocritcal events that serve, directly, as propaganda for them. Rumsfeld does more every day to inflame the enemy's propaganda; and every time he staunchly refuses to accept appropriate ethical criticism, like the UN's report about Guantanamo, he just gives more propaganda right to them.
What a disgusting lack of perspective.
US lags in propaganda war: RumsfeldAnd then, he discussed one of the pieces of the puzzle that serves to alienate the rest of the world and fuel the very extremists he's claiming are winning the war of propaganda:
The United States lags dangerously behind al Qaeda and other enemies in getting out information in the digital media age and must update its old-fashioned methods, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday.
Modernization is crucial to winning the hearts and minds of Muslims worldwide who are bombarded with negative images of the West, Rumsfeld told the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Pentagon chief said today's weapons of war included e-mail, Blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras and Web logs, or blogs.
"Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but ... our country has not adapted," Rumsfeld said.
Rumsfeld rejects calls for Guantanamo closureHoly crap, Rummy! I can't possibly see how these things could possibly be related!
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday rejected calls from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and others to close Guantanamo Bay prison, and firmly denied accusations of torture and abuse.
"He's just flat wrong. We shouldn't close Guantanamo," Rumsfeld said of Annan. "We have several hundred terrorists, bad people, people who if they went back out on the field would try to kill Americans. ... To close that place and pretend that really there's no problem just isn't realistic."
Coupled with the resurgence of the fact that America's has tortured sordid the enemy, under Rumsfeld's watch and perhaps under his orders to do so.
Why are the extremists winning propaganda war?
It has less to do with American's being slow to embrace new propaganda technology.
And much much more to do with America's being too-swift to arm the extremists with ridiculous, hipocritcal events that serve, directly, as propaganda for them. Rumsfeld does more every day to inflame the enemy's propaganda; and every time he staunchly refuses to accept appropriate ethical criticism, like the UN's report about Guantanamo, he just gives more propaganda right to them.
What a disgusting lack of perspective.
posted by General Stan at 3:35 PM
1 Comments:
See, the thing I think that people are forgetting here is that "torture" is a lot like fairies. It all depends on if you BELIEVE it's happening, see? So ol' Rummy has exactly the idea we need to implement - everyone hold hands now and say it together: "I don't believe we torture people! I don't believe we torture people!"
See? All better now.
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