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| 2015-12-28 | ||
[TheHill] The U.S. military is seeking to craft a “new narrative” for the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in part to push back on the growing perception that President Obama does not have a strategy.
It is not clear who is overseeing or directing the effort, which appears to be internally driven within the military. Still, the focus on messaging is in sync with the White House, which has said it needs to do a better job communicating the ISIS strategy to the public. Obama earlier this week in an interview with NPR suggested that the administration has not done enough to publicize progress in the ISIS war. The White House has undertaken a flurry of activity over the past month to highlight the military campaign against ISIS. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Monday rejected the idea that weak messaging is to blame for rising public fears about terrorism. The issue was not with "a communications plan" to defeat ISIS but rather over the need for a "comprehensive plan to destroy this enemy and protect our homeland," a statement from Ryan’s office said. But the administration clearly disagrees. The task force's near-term plan is to get the new narrative done within the next several weeks, to present to Army Gen. Sean McFarland, the U.S. commander overseeing the ISIS war. The messaging effort comes as the U.S.-led coalition is seeing some success in Iraq. Iraqi forces retook the Beiji oil refinery from ISIS in October, Kurdish peshmerga forces retook Sinjar from ISIS in November, and Iraqi forces are on the brink of retaking Ramadi. Those successes have been muted, however, by ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris in November and a mass shooting in San Bernardino in December where one of the attackers had pledged allegiance to ISIS. | ||
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #17 I think the new narrative will be Hansel and Gretel. The Three Billy Goats Gruff is another possibility. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2015-12-28 23:29 |
| #16 You'll probably find that the authors will shortly "retire". |
| Posted by: KBK 2015-12-28 16:52 |
| #15 The spin-machine started up before the holidays. ABC News, The Washington Post, AyPee, Rooters, Slate, etc. have all been slathering on articles and opinion pieces about how the President has been unfairly treated and how he's being magnanimous about it: "President Obama sees his current poor ratings in polls as stemming from a failure to communicate. Aides say that he plans to spend more time next year explaining his policies and describing what he has been doing both to defeat ISIS abroad and to stop acts of terrorism at home." Hence the "new" narrative. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-12-28 15:58 |
| #14 New narrative: "We win. They lose." Hey, it worked before. Or we could go with an update of the Halsey Narrative: "When we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell." (Which, fortunately for all, did not entirely work.) |
| Posted by: Matt 2015-12-28 14:15 |
| #13 More hashtag war symbols coming up. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2015-12-28 12:07 |
| #12 Fire up the Mission Statement Generator |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-12-28 09:06 |
| #11 First step in preparing the preliminary draft: find all "conservative" and replace with "Islam" and find all "republican" and replace with "ISIL" |
| Posted by: Airandee 2015-12-28 08:19 |
| #10 the Joint Staff has drafted its own messaging document. It is phrasing like this that disgusts and therefore turns off any normal productive person. SAHMs, plumbers, auto-repair people, etc. KNOW what this means and recognize it for the pseudo-intelligent babble that it is. People who seriously use this type of language are automatically discounted as worthless. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-12-28 07:57 |
| #9 From the Onion? |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2015-12-28 04:38 |
| #8 Narrative is everything! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-12-28 02:35 |
| #7 Will this refurbished narrative end up with greater numbers of ISIS dead? |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-12-28 02:29 |
| #6 Hey Private, Run out to that field and grab a F@*Load of strawmen, put them on the duce and a half, and deliver them to 1600 PEN Avenue in DC, mmmmmkay? |
| Posted by: newc 2015-12-28 01:41 |
| #5 Because an army of defense of islam will not conquer how FUC&ed up it IS. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-12-28 01:39 |
| #4 Legacy(s). In the worst-case, CAN A OWG-NWO MARXIST-COMMIE-GLOBALIST AMERIKA UNDER OWG + NAU + RELATED SUCCESSFULLY CONTROL THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST-JIAHDIST NUCLEAR CALIPHATE??? Similarly, IS A SOLE SUPERPOWER USA STILL A SUPERPOWER IFF IT BOTH UNILATERALLY PULLS OUT OF EAST ASIA + GIVES UP 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC TO MILPOL OR GEOPOL RIVALS + WANNABES, + ALSO UNILATERALLY PULLS OUT OF EUROPE, ETC. + GIVES UP 1/2 OF THE ATLANTIC TO SAME. The Guam Locals I've talked with, to include University Professors, say "NO". What sayeths the Burg, Net, + Amerika! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-12-28 01:31 |
| #3 "Don't worry I've got everything under control..." or "I've directed my Secretary of Defense to throw himself under the bus and take the blame..." |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-12-28 01:20 |
| #2 So his plan is to lie more. And form focus groups in the hope to be able to find some common ground... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-12-28 00:43 |
| #1 More lies. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2015-12-28 00:08 |