Now I'd like ti see the author do a paper on why the United States is so inept in the public relations front and is seemingly unable able to counter the likes of Al-Jezeera and other Arab and European propaganda mills
That's easy. The traditional media is run by people who basically hate America and everything that makes it special. So they lie about the war. There is nothing that we can do on that PR front to win. Only with the new PR front of the Internet, talk radio(and Fox News) can we finally get around our enemies in the traditional media.
Because, for the most part, our own mainstream media is on the other side, or at least on any side not American. They are with the terrorists IOW. A good illustration of this was today. Rummy's visit to Iraq was featured on the front page of the Omaha paper, but was nowhere to be found in the Lincoln paper. It might show in tomorrow's editions, but since I'm in Lincoln you'd think a late breaking story more likely to make the Lincoln paper than the Omaha one. In fact the Lincoln paper had an overtly anti Rummy article from an up east paper, Boston IIRC.
Because the American military specializes in killing people and breaking things, and the Arab militaries specialize in bulls**t. Everyone performs best in their area of expertise.
[PING! Long and posted previously, but still important.]
Both Israel and the United States are stunningly inept in the propaganda wars, in getting their message out.