Posted on 05/20/2004 5:19:06 AM PDT by Tom Jefferson
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:21:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
May 20, 2004 -- IN Iraq last month, I learned a great deal about the future of combat. By watching TV. During the initial fighting in Fallujah, I tuned in al-Jazeera and the BBC. At the same time, I was getting insider reports from the battlefield, from a U.S. military source on the scene and through Kurdish intelligence. I saw two different battles.
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There should be an accidental bomb drop on al-Jazeera.
Have you ever seen an article about, say, Israelis firing on rock-throwing Palestinian youths that led with the information that gunmen were in the crowd using the aforementioned youths as cover? Not even on Fox.
America has to stop trying to be accepted by the world. We need to stand up for ourselves and boot all of the globalists out of our country, along with the UN headquarters.
Of course none of this will happen and we will continue on our path to destruction. We are witnessing national suicide.
Anyone know a good place to start another republic?
LOL!
>> The media weren't reporting. They were taking sides. With our enemies. And our enemies won. Because, under media assault, we lost our will to fight on.
Propagandists, including those in the employment of the media, are grave enemies during war time and should be killed.
btttttt
Get used to it.
This is the new reality of combat.
This is the only part of this war that's identical to Viet Nam. There's nothing new about it.
Bump.
"the deal not only horrified Iraq's kurd and Shia Arabs"
Yes in deed we are horrified, and I can not understand what happened in Fallujah,where are the militias who were fighting and the terrorists, where are the heavey arms they were fighting with. We have not heared of any of these that should had happened, instead now Falujah fighters are source of the suicide bombings which started again in the rest of Iraq after the siege of Falujah was over. We just left them to move to other areas of the countrey and continue their terrorist acts against every body, and joined to help with Mahdi army.
I feel realy sad, Aljazera and BBC are helping these people more than any body can imagin. I feel that BBC is another Arabic channel, I don't know about American channels.
Anti media ping. Time to quit fighting the PC war. This makes me very upset, and is only helping the enemy.
I usually agree with Peters' observations about the war. But not in this case. The kind of media-driven propaganda that he describes is not new. It has been a factor in wars since the invention of the printing press. Mass communication has, indeed, increased the ability of the enemy to disseminate misinformation more quickly. However, this only means that the winning side must be able to coordinate its efforts in such a way as to maintain its will to win in the midst of all this bullshit.
The problem is this; there are now large segments of the US population, possibly HALF, who are effectively fighting on the side of the enemy. Any hope we have of prevailing in this war requires marshalling our efforts, on the ground and in the media, so that we ultimately defeat the enemy abroad and AT HOME.
Lamenting the fact that the Democrats and their shills in the media constitute an enemy fifth column will not matter should their tactics be allowed to succeed. Bush has to fight the war here as much as he has to fight it abroad. He can begin by not letting the enemy's (read Democrats) bullshit sway his decisions, as in Fallujah, which undercuts his own position and demoralizes his own base.
No press, no prisoners.
then they should be silenced....though not as harshly as Nick Berg's screams were...
If this is war, then there should be censorship as applied in WW II.But the media was mostly comprised of America loving patriots then..who recognized our and the free world's efforts as a war against evil.
Well, we can always shell their hotel again... :-)
"The media weren't reporting. They were taking sides. With our enemies. And our enemies won. Because, under media assault, we lost our will to fight on."
When are we going to wake up to the fact that the media has become one of the enemy? I'm all for watchdog journalism, but these guys are deliberately manipulating the outcome of the war with propaganda - just like they did in Viet Nam.
We need to march on the offices of CNN, NYT et al and SHUT THEM DOWN.
Why is Al Jazeera still on the air ?
I ask myself that question very often. I often add SeeBS, ABC, NBC and CNN.
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