The military “propaganda” lesson in this “news reporting” folly -that has distorted the meaning of the fighting in Iraq all along- should be:

-keep the reporters out of the zone of conflict for as long as possible;

-go in hard, fast, and kill as many people and detroy as much enemy infrastructure as is feasible as quickly as you can, before the “journalists” get a chance to come in and start undermining the mission.

Which is all they can do, since their job is ratings and sales not victory or security. Their Rule: Chaos is more photogenic.

The Press should be completely controlled during wartime in live battle areas, otherwise you are de facto infiltrated by the enemy’s agents (or their consciously fellow-travelling, or unconsciously suicidal, fatally short-sighted, useful idiots).

In the future, wars fought by the West against “terrorism” (Jihad, or any later mutations) will need to be intense and aimed at obliterating the majority of the enemy in the opening weeks of the campaign.

Or intent on crushing the opposition utterly within a few months, at most, before the insidious, self-loathing, colonialist-guilt-eviscerated Media begins to smugly erode public will and support …apparently now for any military action…, and turns every death in the field, trooper or civilian, into a dog-and-pony Gotterdammerung.

Propaganda is 51% of all warfare, and those who lose control over the telling of the “story” risk losing this- and any upcoming- war.

Psy-ops needs to get in gear from our side.

Or the jihadists (resurgent imperialists of Islam) will win the most important battle (the one that precedes and can decide the outcome of modern warfare): they set themselves up as the “oppressed”. Which makes anyone who fights them, for whatever reason, and against any outrages, as “oppressors”.

Those who define the terms steer the conflict.

Letting it get out of your hands and into the paws of terrorists (or their self-defeating nihilist mouthpieces/enablers in the Western media) is to cede a crucial “highground” that is as important as any literal piece of landscape.

The enemy needs to be creatively and constantly portrayed as serious, deadly maniacs.

As the misogynists and gay-bashing homophobes and anti-art and anti-music and sexually-repressed and joyless and intellectually regressive cranks and fools …that their own words prove them to be.

Somehow the MSM Press is more enraptured by disembowelling itself over ancient sins rather than explaining to their audience why someone… our self-declared enemy… thinks that beheading a member of the Press on video and broadcasting this psychopathic crime to the world -in gibbering triumph- is to be considered as a rational opponent. Who the Media then trivialize and romanticize and cutesify and give illegitimate moral equivalence to.

The treason of the press seems more rote than even seditious.

But that only means they need to be herded, not embedded.

Because their heads are already embedded elsewhere.

profitsbeard on November 28, 2006 at 11:31 AM