Truth or Consequences in Iraq
BY Herschel Smith17 years, 9 months ago
The Strategy Page has this from July 6:
July 6, 2006: The large number of charges brought against U.S. troops for crimes against civilians recently is partly coincidence (the rate of such incidents is much less than in past wars, but that is not considered news) and partly right out of the al Qaeda playbook. Making false accusations of atrocities, to attract media attention, is recommended in al Qaeda training documents, as a good way to keep the enemy off balance. After three years of defeats, al Qaeda, and their Iraqi Sunni Arab allies, are in need of some good news. Atrocities can be created, by forcing witnesses to make false claims, and to otherwise fabricate evidence. Anti-American media will not examine the evidence too closely, and will instead run with the story. That most of these claims turn out to be false is, again, not news, and the terrorists know it. Repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes, to some at least, the truth.
On June 23 I said this:
Make no mistake about it. The tactics of the future will be some or all of the following:
- Beheadings
- Kidnappings
- Body mutilations and torture of those captured or kidnapped (don’t ever forget that
On July 8, 2006 at 2:09 pm, Pagar said:
Here is John Kerry’s 22 Apr 1971, speech ,http://www.nationalreview.com/document/kerry200404231047.asp
in which he said:´´´´They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
It worked. America defeated itself, plus millions of South Vietnamese died, simply because they believed that America would help them.
In Iraq, today, the enemy has had 35 years to refine these tactics. Now it’s not just stories; pictures (Of what),
autopsies (by who) of whom), doesn’t seem to matter as long as America’s left believes it. Will it work again?