[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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