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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (114019)	9/5/2003 8:16:01 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

Way back in the conversation I talked about retaliation. I will find it if it is necessary- but you are the one who missed it, and who leapt to an untenable conclusion. "IT DOESN'T EVEN MEAN REALLY SHRUGGING IT OFF- IT MEANS LETTING THE ENEMY THINK YOU SHRUGGED IT OFF." Shrugging off, in propaganda terms (I tried to stress this, I don't know how else I could have said it) implies that your way of life is not changed, that your enemy did not cripple you so psychologically, that your society is now driven by fear. I said repeatedly that the propaganda involved in acting as if things were going on as usual had nothing to do with a violent response. ONE goal (the PR for the enemy) is to show you are unbowed in the face of adversity and attack; another complimentary goal is to show you will go after practical targets that pose a real threat to the US. The two things are synergistic. But of course it would help if people understood the value of propaganda- Bush certainly does, that's how he sold Iraq to the American people as a war necessary for the safety of America. It would be better, of course, if we concentrated on our real enemies, and what propaganda might be useful against them. imo of course