Posted on 08/04/2007 8:11:28 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4
Too many "Americans" are pre-programmed to expect the worst from the people who keep them free. This pre-programming is ideological. It is a legacy of Soviet psychological operations that merged with the Vietnam-era anti-war movement that provides the Democratic Party with its leadership today. War is just not Politically Correct and so no war effort can be supported, unless the issues at stake are not in the national interest and the war can be fought from 20,000 feet.
The Amazing Grim, for whom I have the utmost respect and great admiration, writes about the danger of politicizing the military and adds further details about the Blogger Roundtables which have been attacked as nefarious Surrogates who can be counted on to parrot the Bush Administration’s line on national security issues. Read what Grim has to say, and read the comments.
The Generals of this war were commissioned during Jimmy Carter's administration. Regardless of what their political views were at the beginning of their careers, they have sucked it up and drove on and continued the mission no matter which clowns were running things in Washington. The Army is politically aware, but they have to serve whatever masters the voters see fit to saddle them with. And they can't say a lot of things out loud that they know to be true.
Somebody needs to say it for them.
They have polite fictions they must maintain. Public Affairs has to build rapport with journalists. Building rapport with unpleasant people is difficult, but necessary. Letting them know how you really feel about them is not conducive to mission accomplishment. All enemies, foreign and domestic, cannot really be treated as enemies, no matter how hostile they are. Some enemies are off limits altogether, some have to be treated as potential allies that just haven't come on board yet, and some just have to be ignored so as not to advertise the inability to deal with them.
“Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.” Harry Reid, John Murtha , Nancy Pelosi, get a pass.
PA aren't the people whose job it is to counter enemy propaganda, either. Counter propaganda is a PSYOP mission, but PSYOP maintains the polite fiction that Other Government Agencies perform counter propaganda to mitigate the effects of enemy propaganda directed 24/7/365 by ostensibly "American" media at the American domestic target audience.
There are a lot of reasons and excuses, but the bottom line is that the regulars have left the home front undefended in the battle space that counts the most in this war, the area between the ears of the American voter. Nobody in the government is going to do much to oppose the enemy's strategic communications campaign. Half of their political masters profit from the unchallenged, unopposed, unmitigated ceaseless barrage.
We're going to have to counter the propaganda ourselves.
Relentless, destructive critique of MSM persons and publications is among the most important tasks of bloggers, commenters, and tipsters of the Right. Kralizec, in a comment at Hot Air
We are going to have to blog swarm and harness the collective wisdom of Been There Done Thats to directly refute the misinformation and disinformation our own Main Stream Media partners with the enemy to deliver to us. They must be fisked, debunked, discredited, exposed, relentlessly between now and September, so that when the enemy pulls off their big mass casualty event just in time for General Petraeus' Dog & Pony Show for Congress, we have already done an IO Preparation of the Battlefield and conditioned the target audience to be sceptical of the doom and gloom quagmire schtick.
We have five weeks. Get busy.
ping
"We are going to have to blog swarm and harness the collective wisdom of Been There Done Thats to directly refute the misinformation and disinformation our own Main Stream Media partners with the enemy to deliver to us. They must be fisked, debunked, discredited, exposed, relentlessly between now and September, so that when the enemy pulls off their big mass casualty event just in time for General Petraeus' Dog & Pony Show for Congress, we have already done an IO Preparation of the Battlefield and conditioned the target audience to be sceptical of the doom and gloom quagmire schtick."
And don't forget to click on the Tet link. Good stuff there.
bumperoo
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Doing what I can. Great article!
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