Quote Originally Posted by JarodParker View Post
Funny how most on the Board and Executive Committee of the "Concerned Africa Scholars" are based out places like Syracuse, Rutgers, Stanford and Pomona. I guess they're not that concerned.
Probably not, but the question is not the merit of their ideas, but the extent to which they are believed. As KingJaja pointed out on another thread, AFRICOM really has become a "toxic brand" across a wide audience base. The question here is how those seeking to make the brand toxic managed to convey their perspective more effectively than those that sought to promote the brand, regardless of the relative accuracy of those perspectives.

Of course it's true that an waful lot of people are extremely willing to believe anything negative about the US, but that gets back to the same question. How do we promote the brand more effectively and make it harder to portray as toxic?