Leave it to Los Angeles area law enforcement to get to the truth of what the Associated (with terrorists) Press reports out of Iraq. It seems that an Iraqi police official has been supplying the AP with lots of quotes about the goings on in Iraq. Except, it turns out, the "ofiicial" is no official, at all. The AP, and other MSM networks, have been filing false reports based on the statements of a bogus source and potentially even an insurgent.
The utter and complete failure of the MSM to report the truth from the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan is tantamount to treason. They refuse to report the good stories and readily file the bad ones - whether true or not. And that pathetic reporting has caused a backlash in this country - and around the world - that may be felt for years to come.
Curt at Flopping Aces gets the credit for this one, and rightly so. Read his work starting here and then pick up the story here to catch up on things. He even has Michelle Malkin referencing his work today! Way to go, Curt!
Patterico at Patterico’s Pontifications is also on the job and getting intel directly from CentCom.
But why does it all matter?
Terrorism is not a clash of civilizations that will be waged army against army on an open battlefield.
It is a war that is being waged on the homefront of public opinion. And we are losing.
From Michael Novak, at The Weekly Standard:
Today, the purpose of war is sharply political, not military; psychological, not physical. The main purpose of war is to dominate the way the enemy imagines and thinks about the war. Warfare is not, these days, won on a grand field of battle. Nor is it won by the force that wins series after series of military victories. Nor is triumph assured by killing far higher numbers of the enemy. The physical side of warfare no longer holds precedence.
The primary battlefield today lies in the minds of opposing publics.
The main strategic aim of war today is to dominate the mind of the enemy's public, and then ultimately to dominate the mind of that public's leaders.
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Experience shows that the mainstream press of the United States is alienated from the U.S. military. In addition, the American press is extremely vulnerable to anti-U.S. propaganda. Thus, the American public will be fed nearly everything that foreign adversaries--our band of brothers--wish to feed it about the war. Therefore, I write: Maxim # 1: To defeat America, impose upon the imagination of its media your own storyline.
We have created a monster and, in so doing, become our own worst enemy. Doctoring photographs, making up sources and stories, using questionable sources without proper background, paying ransom for kidnapped journalists and showing the war from the enemy's "perspective" have jaded the American public against our President, our military and our missions overseas.
And this is just the beginning.
To defeat the United States, then, it suffices to demonstrate that their vaunted military, for all its awesome power and tactical bravery in the field, cannot halt daily "chaos." To achieve this victory over America, it is not even necessary to create actual "chaos," but only its appearance. This definition of chaos cannot be made on cerebral, analytic, statistical, or comparative grounds. (In October the Times of London reported, "An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France" this year, with 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services and nearly 3,000 police officers injured. We don't need comparisons like this or comparisons with traffic deaths and violent crimes in individual U.S. states.)
No, the shadowy existence of this "chaos" in Iraq is projected by a steady stream of stomach-churning, atavistic, destructive acts, staged day by day where the cameras of the U.S. press cannot resist them. Some of these acts bring orange explosions and black smoke, others consist simply of dumping dead and tortured bodies where the public cannot avoid discovering them.
It is the illusion of chaos, compounded by shoddy and inaccurate reporting, that has the American people viewing Iraq as a lost cause. And that illusion has been swallowed wholly by the Pelosi-Kerry-Rangel-Dean-Murtha crowd, simply because it suits their purpose. To win an election, portray those opposing you as weak, ineffective and incapable. Having the MSM supporting your "cause" doesn't hurt either.
We not only can win in Iraq, we must win. But we cannot, and will not, until and unless the American people finally recognize the true threat of what is before us. There will never be any negotiation with these people, no sharing of ideas in search of a common ground. There can be no such dialog when one party wishes nothing but the total and complete destruction of the other.
I hate the "stay the course" catchphrase espoused by so many, but I understand the concept. To leave before the cause is won will only weaken us in the eyes of our enemy and encourage further attacks against us.
A stable Middle East, with willing allies like Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, and, ultimately, Iraq, is our goal. To leave the region in chaos, under the manipulations of Iran, is unthinkable.
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