Hi PT,

Quote Originally Posted by Pragmatic Thinker View Post
In Department of Defense circles there is a lot of talk about Information Operations or IO, and for the life of me I can't understand how we as westerners are losing this fight. If there is one thing we love and that is our media outlets, especially television. I think it is shameful that our government does such a poor job a garnering its citizens' support for these wars. I understand not being able to reach an audience in Pakistan or Afghanistan, but for the life of me I can't understand how we fail here at home!?!?
Probably too much to go into here but, in the really short form, let's just say that a democratic system with highly polarized politics is very amenable to media manipulation. The real problem is that while Afghanistan was a fairly well supported operation, it has been overshadowed by the vey unpopular Iraq war.

FL - let's hear it for the Vandoos!!!! I am waiting to see if any of them take the "company R&R actions" that they did in WW II <evil grin>.

Marc