Winning the Long War =/ Getting Elected Homecoming Queen
An excellent WaPo article from last month by Gary Anderson (H/T TPMB):
Exactly. This is not a popularity contest (which implies we’re trying to get people to like us).Why… are we supposedly losing the information war in the Muslim world, and why has there not been more of an outcry among Muslims over this slaughter of innocents? A big part of the reason is that we spend too much time wanting to be liked rather than turning Muslim anger on our enemies.
The goal is to fracture al-Qaeda’s narrative and fold them back in upon themselves. Keep America out of it.If I were directing the U.S. strategic information campaign, I would spend my dollars on collecting photos of the Muslim innocents al-Qaeda has killed and putting below them quotations from the Koran decrying such practices.
