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It takes a very large enemy to create existential fear in the United States, and there are not enemies left that big. Because of that, internicene political divisions in the electorate cannot be fused into an implacable defender of our nation. We're just too big to take it seriously.
So we don't. I guess it goes with being the superpower. It's also why we can't act like one.
I know treason is still a crime that goes punished (that ugly American al Qaeda dude got hit with it in Q4 2006). I mean, treason is spelled out directly in the US Constitution. Start stringing people up.
If "objectivity" means taking part in the killing of US troops, perhaps reporters that are found without US military escort in an overseas theater of war should be shot on sight. I swear, with the BS going on today, the Allies would have lost WWII.
"We aren't a truly free nation unless we lose all our wars"
--Treason Media
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That's an important point. Just like Bernard Goldberg pointed out in Bias, you don't need an actively planned conspiracy to get the effects of one...and it doesn't take intentional treason to blow security.
Cluelessness, selfishness, inflated egos, etc., are very dangerous.
Even Jane Fonda feels comfortable embracing her Hanoi Jane persona again.
Obviously her faux appology was simply a marketing ploy for her failed comeback and her bombed.
The media is giving the deadbeats of the 60's life like zombies.
Bump
One of the most important steps to victory in the Second World War was almost complete control of information and propaganda.
Viet Nam was lost at the information and propaganda levels before it was lost politically. It was never lost militarily, but it was lost nevertheless, and it was lost on the information and propaganda battlefields.
The Gulf War was won because access to battlefield information was severely restricted, and because the war didn't last long enough for the information war to take effect against us. It did begin to kick in after the war, and we were subjected to 10 years of stories about our supposed genocide against Iraqi babies, right up until the decision was made to discontinue "sanctions" and invade. At that moment, the propaganda reversed course, and suddenly sanctions were effective.
The Afghan war was won because it was won quickly, and the propaganda war didn't have time to take effect against us, and the Iraq war was an excellent case of information-judo, in which we controlled the propaganda war by giving almost complete access to the press - but embedding them with the troops, so that they saw the war from the same perspective as the ones fighting it. The press desks back home hated it, because they lost the ability to filter the news coming in from the front.
That control returned after the war, and they have not lost it since. We have been fighting a losing battle on the information front since Baghdad fell, classified operations have been blown on page one, fake investigations highlighted, enemy propaganda treated as news. Our "narrative" has been crowded out by the enemy's "narrative", and the result is that we have lost control of Congress, and may soon see our troops forced off the field. Again, like Viet Nam, we will lose the war that was militarily won, because we lost control of the propaganda war.
The enemy doesn't make that mistake. We make that mistake consistently since 1945 and the result is defeat seized from the jaws of victory. Again.