December 14, 2004
Victor Davis Hanson on Terrorism as Propaganda
John Hawkins has more of
the best of VDH 2004. Here is a teaser.
"The improvised explosive device is a metaphor for our time. The killers cannot even make the artillery shells or the timers that detonate the bombs, but like parasites they use Western or Western-designed weaponry to harvest Westerners. They cannot blow up enough Abrams tanks or even Humvees to alter the battlefield landscape. But what they can accomplish is to maim or kill a few hundred Westerners in hopes that our own media will magnify the trauma and savagery of their attack — and do so often enough to make 300 million of us become exhausted with the entire "mess." The message of Arabic television is that the Iraqis are supposed to blame us, not their brethren who are killing them, for the carnage. Not our power, but our will, is the target."
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You're right. But they can build those car bombs and IED's quite well but most of the time they are killing Iraqi's and what we hear from MSM and other sources is how bad it is. It is bad in some places but its not bad everywhere. You talk to soldiers there, who've been or are there now or on their second duty and everyone of them will tell you it's a lot different on the ground with the IRAQI people, who welcome us wholeheartedly. The soldiers constantly say this every chance they get despite how busy and brutal it can get in an area for others. It's not as bad as the MSM makes it out to be. Our will cannot be broken, first because we're American's, second, it would mean the terrorists win and that cannot be allowed by any means and our troops will stay there as long as is necessary. Just wish they'd stop killing those trained police officer's, Iraqi soldiers, et al by blowing up police stations, lines of Iraqi men signing up to be trained. It is time for the Iraqi's to stand up to the plate and end this terror and insurgency but that's hard when they are being killed and bombed before or after the fact. But even that can't stop the USA or other members of the coalition for trying and continuing to train or the Iraqi's signing up for training. They also need to protect their assets, their infrastructure, their oil lines because those oil lines is all they have to offer the world for trade in goods that they need and they need a lot. People all over this country not only have wonderful programs for our troops but their request is for goods for the children of Iraq.
There was a video recently of the Marines fighting the insurgents and they were in this newly built building pissed off because they were going to have to come back and fix it and all it's bullet holes. People in Fallujah will be coming back home sometime this week and now the mess is in Badhdad and Mosul. We keep pushing and bombing and killing, maybe some will only make it to the porous section of mountain where Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan meet. One can only hope but we can still never forget - and never forget our troops.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 18, 2004 11:26 PM (D39Vm)
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