[Industrialblog,
September 25, 2006]
Vague, undeveloped thought on the war on terror
Mebbe someone else can figure out what I'm trying to say -- I'm thinking that perhaps ... the U.S., with its mass media, is caught in some kind of weird feedback loop in the War on Terror. Jihadists are fighting, for the most part, a war of attrition, and their focus point is our mass media. In this case, it's similar to Vietnam.
I'm not sure if there's a solution, or if I've identified the problem.
Granted, we tried ignoring the problem ... and that didn't work. But it seems like the media attention the terrorists got is what the terrorists are after. Without that media attention, the rules of the war are different.
I'm not sure if there's a solution, or if I've identified the problem.
Granted, we tried ignoring the problem ... and that didn't work. But it seems like the media attention the terrorists got is what the terrorists are after. Without that media attention, the rules of the war are different.