Posted on 10/18/2006 4:21:56 AM PDT by Alouette
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All this wailing by the left about habeas corpus is so hypocritical.
In 1996 Clinton signed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act which made it much more difficult for murder defendants to have their habeas corpus appeals heard in federal court.
Clearly habeas corpus suspension is only repugnant when a Republican does it. And I note that it's okay with leftists that murder defendants under Clinton had their habeas corpus protections curtailed, but jihadists under Bush should receive all protections possible.
No PR campaign can be effective for any organization when prominent segments of the organization are publicly undermining it. As long as the Dems and their lackeys in the press publicly undermine the WoT and the Iraq War, our enemies will hold out for the day our country finally loses its will.
Our adversaries know the history of Vietnam. Giap layed it out pretty clearly. They need but follow his path.
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As usual, the media gets it wrong. Fighting wars in the press is NOTHING new, it's been going on forever. The South almost won the Civil War with a campaign in the city papers.
Gen Giap and Ho Chi Minh are excellent examples of public relations successes. They should be, they were taught by the best, our US Army, in Japanese-occupied Asia during WWII. True that they turned on us, but that was more our lack of vision.
The real problem is George Bush, who refuses (and is possibly completely unable) to enunciate his policy to his constituency. He's possibly the worst public speaker of all our presidents.
Look at our economy, the stock market is rockin and rollin, interest rates are down, the housing market is booming, and George the Inarticulate is allowing the press to paint doom and gloom!
And that is what they doing. The lessons of Vietnam and Somolia are not lost on Bin Ladin.
seems that only when our Western public takes a BIG islamic terrorist hit will there be an effect on public relations stuff
Pipes is a smart guy. Great piece!
"If united, Europeans and Americans will likely dissuade Iranians from going ahead with nuclear weapons."
Unless Pipes means united militarily & intending to use force, I don't believe Iran will skip a beat in their quest for nukes. The pass that North Korea has received to date from the West has given Iran the green light to the A-bomb.
And there was strong sentiment against being involved in WWII. Even after Pearl Harbor, there was plenty of talk that our German friends would never do anything like that.
Germany declared war on us first, not the other way around. If Hitler had kept his mouth shut, we would not have gone into Europe, FDR's sentiments were on Germany's side, Germany won that one in the press.
Heck, the press is still on Stalin's side, even though he was one of history's horrendous killers.
The power to shape opinion in the press has been recognized long before this war.
Pipes seems to be in the ballpark, but he did not say enough about the enemy within. The leftists, communists, socialists, and marxists in the US undermined our efforts in Vietnam, and in fact caused us to lose that war. The enemy within has yet to accept responsibility for the killng fields in Thailand. They just made fun of the domino effect! But it happened as predicted. How does a country deal with the enemy within when they are so many, when they are sprinkled within the government and economy in monumental numbers?
In the good old days, a Declaration of War was also necessary. This greatly added to the "all in" mentality the author desires.
That's revisionism. The Boer War is an example of an older style war. Wars like the American Indian Wars, and the British Campaigns in Inida (and disasterously in Afganistan) that both began in the late 1600's and continued well into the 1800's. Or the long war for democratic liberty in Europe that included the Treaty of Westphalia. Or the Arab wars of conquest. All those wars where fought socialogically and literaturely as well militarily, with long stretches of languishing public support, and of low-grade guerilla warfare interspersed with a rare major head-on battle. All very long wars. Multiple generational affairs.
Maybe in half-stirred pots like that capa di Pat Buchanan ...
Where was the Declaraion of War for the Revolution? For the French and Indian Wars? For our own Inidan Wars?
Geesh, but folks have spotty historical memory!
I must add.
Pipes ignores the countries who openly or tacitly support terrorism - Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc. Conventional wars can be fought against them, & easily won.
If state support & sanctuary of terrorism were to end, I believe we would quickly win the War on Terror.
Since when did Pipes get so original and smart. This stuff was fed to him... so it seems. But very good by him
The only thing that will persuade these loons is if they wake up with a knife at their own throats and the smell of camel in the air. Or not- they would probably ask to convert so they could help out in the slaughter.
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