Former military man Jeff Huber wrote an excellent piece on Military.com regarding the “surge” in Iraq. He points out that the surge was always crafted as a propaganda tactic: In information operations, the objective, at least the stated one, is so vague and flexible that it doesn’t need to have anything at all to do [...]
Archive for December 31, 2008
Easier Not to Look
Posted: December 31, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Jesus, nonviolence
From The New York Times: Quietly, as the United States presidential election and its aftermath have dominated the news, America’s three broadcast network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq. “The war has gone on longer than a lot of news organizations’ ability or appetite to cover it,” said Jane Arraf, a former [...]
