How al Qaeda Used the Media and the Democrats and Almost Won the War

The Real Revo ^ | January 5, 2008 | R.D.Walker

[Kaslin]

Al Qaeda in Iraq knew they could not defeat the United States on the battlefield so they planned to defeat the U.S. at home. In 1968, the communists in Vietnam threw themselves against the U.S. Military with all they had in the Tet Offensive. They were defeated and utterly destroyed. The media, however, convinced the American people that the communists were strong and Walter Cronkite told the world the war was unwinnable. A desperate, suicidal offensive that ended in military failure became the path to victory for the communists. They defeated America on the homefront, not on the battlefield.

This was not lost on al Qeada in Iraq (AQI) and the Iranians. They saw the way in which Tet won the war for the communists and planned to emulate it. AQI, however, was even weaker than the communists in Vietnam. Instead of a direct assault on the military, they would begin killing hundreds of Iraqis to create a managed “civil war” in Iraq. It was all stagecraft for the benefit of the Western media and the Democrats in the U.S. If they could convince Americans that Iraq was a civil war and unwinnable, they would force the U.S. Military to withdraw.

The “civil war” characterization of the war was a force multiplier for the al Qaeda/Democrat media war alliance. “Continuing violence” by itself did not by itself have a very powerful anti-war effect because it had tendencies not just to depress America’s fight spirit, but also to energize it. If the violence showed al Qaeda waging war on the Iraqi people, that would show the American people and the Iraqi people on the same side, which would make Americans want to protect Iraqis, while hinting at the reality on the ground: that more and more Iraqis were turning against al Qaeda.

Of course, AQI and the Iranians knew their time was limited. The more Iraqis they slaughtered, the the more the Iraqis turned against them. It is one thing to convince the American public that the violence was Iraqi-on-Iraqi, but the Iraqis knew better. With each week of violence, more more Sunnis turned on AQI and more Shia turned on the Iranians. It was a race. Could AQI and the Iranians convince the Democrats and the American people the civil war hoax was reality and goad them into surrender before 100% of the Iraqi people turned on them? The media and the Democrats played “useful idiot” to al Qaeda and the AQI plan was within grasp of victory.

Enter General Petraeus and the Surge.

Alec Rawls at Error Theory has the whole article and all the details. You really need to read the whole thing.

[Kaslin]

My pleasure. You’re welcome

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It was part of their plan....

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There is a book (now available in paperback ):

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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
(Hardcover)
by David Horowitz

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And reviews:

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Editorial Reviews

Rich Lowry, Editor National Review

David Horowitz is synonymous with pyrotechnics. A historian and polemicist of the first order, he is paid the ultimate compliment --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle

An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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See all Editorial Reviews

Fascinating Analysis of Leftist Goals, August 13, 2006

Reviewer: N. Sincerity - See all my reviews

A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia.

The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us,

Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Slandering the American Soldier - An American media tradition.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

When the Times learned how it was being used by al Qaeda, it should have issued a front page apology and promised not to be duped again. Instead, the Times just kept on reporting each al Qaeda ploy with the same fresh gullibility. It was a game of footsie between them, striving on both sides for American defeat.

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See post #22.

[freema]

Thank you. It’s so hard to believe these people are standing next to us at the grocery.

I never saw the article referenced in Post #23.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

It is most interesting. Thanks.

[FreeAtlanta]

All Americans who fell for the medias lies in Vietnam, should be disgusted with themselves. They should be the biggest backers in our Iraq efforts.

[Marine_Uncle]

The masses are always gullible.

[narses]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.