Media and the Terrorist Agenda

One question: If the main stream media and cable TV did not report Iraq and Afghanistan bombings 24/7, would terrorists be less inclined to strap a bomb belt on themselves to kill innocent civilians? You might classify this as a rhetorical question.

Are terrorists in Iraq fighting a war of attrition. There is no way they could they wipe out the US army or the Iraqi people. They're fighting a PR war and our MSM is publishing their news releases-bomb-after-bomb-after-bomb.

With the proliferation of news outlets, bombing victims die over and over on each news break. A small example is the AOL news page; good news has a short life span, but Iraq casualties are posted for two days. And Ted Kople On Nightline, publishes the names of fallen solders, ostensibly to honor their heroism, but most pundits conclude that he's really making an anti war statement.

Because of bias anti war media, the US is losing its will to fight. Is it no wonder that the army is having recruitment difficulties? Our enemy is willing to give their lives for their cause. We are not.

Rush Limbaugh has an interesting idea. He's calling for a 90 day moratorium on media attacks against the Iraq war. Shades of WWll, it will never happen, even though reporters and pundits are indirectly responsible for the death of innocent civilians. Is there any doubt that over-kill-coverage by the New York Times of so called prisoner abuse at Abu Graib and Gitmo has been used by terrorist to recruit homicide bombers and embolden their cause-and consequently more innocent civilians die.

Terrorist justify beheading and bombing as means towards their end, and our MSM supplies them with moral equivalence by branding prisoner interrogation at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib as "torture."

While Newsweek told us about alleged abuse of the Koran at Gitmo, they failed to put Gitmo in context. We have subsequently learned that prisoners are fed better food than out troops. For example one meal served includes honey glazed chicken Breast, rice pilaf, and steamed peas. Compare that meal to Army MREs (meals ready to eat). MIRE include chili, beans, turkey, spaghetti etc. Sounds yummy.

Each detainee is given a Koran w/web holder, prayer rugs and directions towards Mecca. Guards must use gloves to handle the Koran and then must only use their right hand, and this because infidels are unclean. But surprise, surprise, most of the abuse of the Koran at Gitmo has been committed by prisoners.

A news moratorium is too much to expect, but could the war news be relegated to page twenty instead of page one. Or could editors be more selective when they choose which syndicated pundits are published. If they can, they should shun the anti war zealots. Editors during WWll were patriotic and brought the US together to defeat fascism. Do we deserve less in the war against terrorism?