[lit-ideas] Re: Englehardt, Cold Warrior in a Strange Land
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:34:23 -0500
>>Iraq is winning on home made stuff
Here's an assertion worth debating. "Iraq" is
winning. Iraq is "winning."
Hmmm, I thought "Iraq" was "voting."
"Iraq" is "winning" implies that Iraq is trying to
destroy its own infrastructure, blow its own oil
facilities, bomb its own police, hospitals,
mosques, and schools. It implies that "victory"
for "Iraq" is chaos, civil war, and fragmentation.
Makes no sense. The proposition I would support is
that:
*There is a perception in the US that the enemies
of an Iraqi government are winning.
*Having or not having that perception is what is
at stake.
Hence my pointing out that the NYT article about
the "man on the box" not really being the man on
the box, but rather a former mayor of Baghdad
sponsored by Arab NGOs and "private
contributions." These groups financed an
international PR campaign by a supposed "victim's
group" deceptively claiming to be in Baghdad but
actually operating out of Amman, Jordan.
It shows the underside of the large PR War being
fought for perceptions here in the US.
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