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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (13931)	3/4/2003 9:21:59 PM
From: abuelita	Respond to of 89467

s2- Well one of the main effects of that is in the media. The Pentagon has learned that if you show the American public too many pictures of dead peasants and children, if the pictures are too bloody and too gruesome day after day, you will certainly help to build up antagonism to the war. Ever since Vietnam they have slowly but surely limited the media access to the battlefield –it gets less and less with each war. It is all staged now; they allow the media to see only what they want them to see. That is one effect of Vietnam. As far of the length of the war, they bombed Serbia, day and night, for 78 days – that’s a long time. They will bomb until they get a certain effect, either surrender or total devastation. They prefer to do it quickly, but not too quickly because they always have a number of experiments to carry out. These wars are done partly to carry out experiments with the newest weapons, and so they have to have time for that as well. The US will take as long as it wants. The Empire will do what it wants. You and I can just follow behind and comment about this and that, but the Empire will do what it wants. ... i knew this. but it still shakes me up to see it in print. r1