A "highly experienced" "high ranking" American officer explains that Baghdad will not fall in just a few days' time (as originally predicted) because, "There is a big cultural difference between the U.S. and the Arab World. That makes it hard."
In other words, if the shoe were on the other foot -- if a massive and technologically superior invading armada came down from Mars with the stated goal of overthrowing the Bush Administration and "liberating" the American people, in the process raining death and destruction upon us day after day after day, poisoning the continent with radioactive weapons, not allowing any other country (or planet) to try to aid us, creating absolute chaos, littering the soil with unexploded ordnance, wiping out civilian infrastructure, cutting off an existing civilian aid programme, all while "getting the message across to educated people"; then, the rest of us -- the uneducated -- would welcome the Martians with open arms.
Or if we didn't do, it would be owing to the "cultural difference", and to the fact that the uneducated among us "want to be moved by emotion", and to Ashcroft's "very powerful enforcement and repression system". Got it.
Amazingly, this officer's testimonial is a dissenting view. The prevailing view is that Iraqi hostility is "receding day by day" and that the invading troops are more and more being given a "warm welcome".
its a shame the main stream media as got so lazy
Posted by: me on April 4, 2003 01:05 PMwhat's really a shame is that the american public still looks to the "mainstream media" for "news", after decades of propoganda being shunted down the wires....wake up people, there is so much more going down than "the war"....
Posted by: barbara on April 6, 2003 03:58 PMIt might not matter to the administration if we lose the propaganda war and the Iraqis keep fighting. My guess is that we will just declare victory, perhaps when we control Iraqi TV, set up a government and sit in the desert until the Iraqis suffer so much under the siege that they take up arms and do the dirty fighting. If that doesn't work, the American public will have stopped paying attention, like in Afghanistan. It won't matter much either way because we will be in the desert pumping oil. The fighting is still going on in Afghanistan no longer seems to matter as long as we get our pipeline. Even though the wars may rage on after victory, we will have th oil.
Posted by: Ted on April 6, 2003 10:34 PM