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2004-12-03 Arabia

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Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-12-03 9:39:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The only thing that keeps me from laughing even louder is the raw evil that produces this sort of thinking.

The saddest/funniest bit is the recursive nature of this article. it still gives the Izzoids a bad image while decrying doing things that give the Izzoids a bad image.

They know something is wrong. Thats a big first step. Now they need to figure out what exactly is wrong. Thats going to take a while, it seems.

Posted by N Guard 2004-12-03 10:00:54 AM|| 2004-12-03 10:00:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Bravo. This is brilliant. My hat's off to the psyc ops guys behind this one. Too funny.

Posted by 2b 2004-12-03 10:18:38 AM|| 2004-12-03 10:18:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 You sure its psy ops? It could be a for-real. At the evry least, it's a meme we should perhaps encourage.

Posted by Mike 2004-12-03 10:56:15 AM|| 2004-12-03 10:56:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 You sure its psy ops...

of course not, that's the beauty is it not? Now the viewers will have to watch and wonder if they are being played for fools by the joooos. It will force them to actually think for themselves about what they are watching.
heh, heh, heh.

Posted by 2b 2004-12-03 11:07:22 AM|| 2004-12-03 11:07:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 All the psyops guys really have to do when their opponents are psychoceramics is sit around and play cards. The other side's doing more to ensure their eventual self-destruction than we can. All we can do is help the process along with an occasional strategic shove.

Posted by Fred 2004-12-03 11:25:12 AM|| 2004-12-03 11:25:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 the Middle Easterners shouldn't feel bad. We, in the west, were played for fools by our own media for the last 40 years as well.

Posted by 2b 2004-12-03 11:46:54 AM|| 2004-12-03 11:46:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 So the point of the article is that any portrayal of muslim countries in a bad light is erroneous (ostensibly because muslim countries cannot be at fault?), or portrayal of nonmuslim countries in a good light must therefore be a Zionist conspiracy.

whew. the only way people read and buy that crapola is if they are too blinded by joooooo- and USA-hating to be capable of being objective.

Posted by PlanetDan 2004-12-03 12:53:10 PM|| 2004-12-03 12:53:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Right on, Planet Dan - I believe the reason that the Muslim countries fail is because the keystone of their culture is blame. The Euro's will suffer the same fate if they are not careful. Even Jewish culture has that flaw - though Jews, like our liberal left, tend to blame themselves rather than others. I believe Christian cultures do better because they believe in the idea of forgiveness and redemption - allowing people to acknowledge and move on.

Posted by 2b 2004-12-03 1:00:22 PM|| 2004-12-03 1:00:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Gentlemen... I"m afraid you have PsyOp all wrong.
It doesn't work like that.

Or rather, it could, but we usually aren't allowed to do it.

however, I hear the CIA have their own rules and might be able to.

Did you know that army psyop isn't allowed to do "black" PsyOp in Iraq.

weird but true. Technically we're not even allowed to get involved in the poltical process anymore (education, turn out the vote, ANYTHING).

that's all up to the Embassy and the local gov now.

oh, and the UN of course.

-DS
"The horns hold up the halo"

Posted by DeviantSaint 2004-12-03 1:25:06 PM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~deviantsaint] 2004-12-03 1:25:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 it doesn't really matter who planted the seed, now does it? The average Muslim is probably horrified by the beheadings, the hate spewed from the pulpits, the amunition being stored in mosques and the fight against democracy.

This allows good Muslims an acceptable venue to speak out against the evil they see being done in the name of their religion. Al Jazeera is propaganda and they know it. That they blame the Jews is just compulsive behavior.

Posted by 2b 2004-12-03 1:44:17 PM|| 2004-12-03 1:44:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 This dovetails with our discussion of the latest bullshit from Jihad Unspun, as posted here by Mike Sylwester.
Whatever the intention, Al J's tales of Jihadi heroism and American depravity have inspired thousands of ignorant youngsters to feed themselves into the meat-grinder of American firepower and fighting skill. Al J was directly responsible, for example, for Iraqi mujas driving their soft-skinned vehicles directly at American tank columns during the invasion last year, with the usual results. AJ had run several propaganda pieces championing this picturesque, albeit suicidal, tactic.
The same is true of the jihadis' ludicrous and lethal practice of "spray and pray" urban fighting, the object of much glorification on AJ video. As one recently returned serviceman described it to me, "the dumb fucks put on their Rambo headbands, jump into the middle of the street, and blast away with their AKs. We spot them and it's 'bye bye, Abdul'."

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-03 3:29:39 PM|| 2004-12-03 3:29:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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