THE REAL TARGET - a repost!

New York Post ^ | August 4, 2005 | Ralph Peters

[yoe]

IN Iraq yesterday a roadside bomb killed 14 Marines. Two days earlier, six Marines from the same outfit were ambushed and killed. Yet those Marines were not the terrorists' primary target. You were.

Our enemies know the Marines won't quit. But they hope you will.

[snip]Those Marines were tactical targets of opportunity. You're the strategic target. The terrorists hope that our media will create an atmosphere of failure — and that you'll give in to a sense of defeat.

[snip]The Marines are looking for a few good men (and women). The terrorists are looking for headlines.

[snip]They certainly want to kill Marines. But that doesn't require video cameras. The rush to document and publicize their occasional successes makes it clear that the terrorists are fighting, above all, a media campaign. It's their only hope.

[yoe]

"The terrorists want to hit that battalion as hard as they can, to break the unit's morale and gain some breathing space. They've been doing what any thinking enemy would do — concentrating their resources on a decisive point. They probably studied the forces tightening the noose around them and decided that hitting a reserve unit offered the best chance of success."

"THEY DON'T KNOW THE MARINES!"

"They don't expect to force out our military through violence. They hope our political leaders will withdraw our troops. The terrorists have done their homework. They know that a disheartening number of our politicians share one of their beliefs: a low opinion of the American people, a notion that we're weak, that we're quitters.

This article by Peters is so very important in the war of propaganda - let the news people CNNCBSABC and FOX know we DON"T want pictures of the terrorist's dirty war anymore. We want pictures and news of our successes in Iraq etc.

This propaganda war being waged by the terrorists, aimed at our spineless politicians is working - STOP IT by letting your opinion be heard.

This War of Propaganda is also the same long in the tooth propaganda about Hillary.

The terrorists know that our Marines aren't afraid of them. But they believe that our politicians are terrified..... OF YOU.

[kaktuskid]

If it was WWII..it would be called "Aid And Comfort to the Enemy"!!

[atomicpossum]

Absolutely true. With every act, terrorists are reaching out-- to the media, to play up the horrors, and to the Left, who, always looking for someone to root for against us, will joyfully embrace defeat, regardless of the cost, whose guilt tell them they must be penitent. It's the Viet Nam strategem. The terrorists know what they're doing, even if it's too complex to understand for the average American.

[Rummyfan]

Ralph Peters bump!

I highly recommend his BEYOND TERROR to all Freepers.

[rawcatslyentist]

My tinfoil hat is telling me, this was an inside info job to affect the Ohio rep race. Just a bit too coinkydental for my fillings.
Hopefully MI will get to the bottom of this and hang the traitors responsible.

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[Mind-numbed Robot]

They are using the tactics of the North Vietnamese in an attempt for the MSM and leftist activists to do the job for them. The Democrats are following faithfully along by trying to repeat the Nixon resignation with phony efforts to impeach Bush.

It would almost be exciting for them to come up with something different but they won't because, like Lucy and the football, their tired only tricks still seem to work.

[The Toll]

Their only weapons are car bombs and CNN.