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To: tsigprofit who wrote (17255)5/25/2005 8:13:12 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 20773
 
Of course, everyone is capable of evil. But I do know there is a propaganda war going on.

The goal is to convince people the use of American power is illegitimate.

One way of doing that is to present US soldiers as sadistic torturers and their commanders, both civilian and military, as fascists who believe in torture as a matter of policy.

Another line of attack is to claim that the use of American power inflames Muslims and endangers us by making them mad at us. The problem here is that prior to Bush's more aggressive use of American power - the destruction of the WTC was attempted first in 1993, the 2nd attempt (911/01) was planned and the operation begun prior to the change Bush made, we had US embassies destroyed in Kenya and Tanzania among other places, Americans were slaughtered by terrorists in the Phillipines, Pakistan, and many other places. The USS Cole was bombed while making a peaceful port call. American servicemen were killed in their barracks in SA where they had been invited to protect the SA's. And finally, Americans were killed in Somalia while taking part in a humanitariam mission to save starving people. Clearly they were mad at us long before we began taking the fight to them. Since 9/11/01 Americans have been killed by terrorists only in AFghanistan and Iraq. And most of those killed were fighting them on their own turf. Which is better - to have Americans killed fighting them in their own backyards or to have Americans slaughtered like sheep in a time and place of the enemies choosing? Easy question for me to answer.

PS: The 3rd line propaganda line is to attack anyone and everyone who is friendly to the US and cooperative with us as evil or at least illegitimate. This post is long enough so I won't elaborate on that right now.
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