[lit-ideas] Re: Text of bin Laden Tape
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:44:36 -0500
Napoleon also backed up his rhetoric with boots on the ground and strategy.
Their thinking this or that is like us taking credit for the demise of the
Soviet Union. It makes them/us feel good but if we're strong, solvent and
well defended, what difference does it make what they think. Instead,
we're overstretched financially and militarily, with porous unattended
borders and with a sore butt for good measure. But none of that
information makes the slightest bit of difference. To Napoleon it would
have.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1/21/2006 1:25:20 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Text of bin Laden Tape
>
> Phil: So, again, why does it matter that bin Laden
> would declare
> victory?
>
> Eric: Because people believe what they hope is
> true. You may see a pile of bloody hamburger and a
> dozen dead innocent people; they might see a
> glorious martyr already enjoying the paradise of
> Allah, and a stack of dead Infidels conquered by
> the noble shaheed.
>
> Say the US is moving toward victory over the
> Japanese in the Pacific islands, but Tokyo Rose is
> telling the troops that Frisco is in flames, and
> other Japanese propagandists are telling their
> troops the only honorable path is to fight to the
> last man, woman, and child.
>
> It matters because warfare is not a pericope from
> a book by Quine. It is a question of perception as
> well as an assessment of the reality on the ground.
>
> This is what Napoleon meant when he said,
> "Imagination rules the world."
>
>
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