shawa
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 Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject: The Ho Chi Minh Trail to Beirut |
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Excellent article. Subversion well learned by Arafat still being used today. Thanks to Walter Cronkite, JKerry et al. My blood boils!
The tactics of moral inversion: A weak-minded public sees the good guys as BAD, hence we lose; and the stakes today are too high for that to happen.
| Quote: | A bizarre moral inversion grips most of the world’s media, in particular America’s legacy press.Those who defend against aggresion are castigated, while the aggressors are celebrated. Modern warfare involves information war, and the strategy and tactics of moral inversion derive from the Vietnam conflict, the crucible of the sensibilities of the media Establishment.
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In each instance, the world reflexively imprecated the Israeli shells which delivered the carnage and demanded “restraint” and “proportionality.” Meanwhile, the cowards who intentionally placed innocent women and children in harm’s way in order to maximize their own civilian casualties enjoyed yet another victory in the increasingly vital battle for public opinion.
Indeed, the ruthless modern architects of terror have learned to strategically exploit the susceptibility of the media and other western liberals in order to weaken their enemies’ resolve. This should surprise no one—Their mentors had successfully employed similar tactics over 35 years ago in a little skirmish called Vietnam.
The PLO enrolls in Media Manipulation 101
Former PLO leader Yassir Arafat had always been a great admirer of Ho Chi Minh. In his 9/23/2005 analysis of Arafat, whom he refers to as “the godfather of 20th century terrorism,” David Meir-Levi recounted:
Ho’s success with leftwing sympathizers in the United States and Europe had Arafat green with envy. “Progressive” activists on American campuses, under the tutelage of North Vietnamese operatives, had succeeded in re-framing the Viet Nam war from a Communist conquest of the South into a struggle for national liberation.
In an earlier 1997 article, “Arafat’s Peace Process,” Yossef Bodansky tells the story of Palestinian terrorist Abu Iyad. Iyad’s book, Palestinian Without a Motherland, relayed the saga of his journey with a high-level PLO delegation to Hanoi in early 1970 to meet with a Politburo team to learn how North Vietnam could help the Palestinian struggle:
The Vietnamese recounted their success in manipulating the American and Western media to the point of having a direct impact on the US ability to wage war against North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.
The Teacher’s Tet
The head teacher was General Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese Army mastermind behind myriad battle campaigns, including the 1968 Tet Offensive. While a military failure for the NVA, Tet’s psychological impact upon both the American press and political support for the war had forever changed the shrewd headmaster’s play book.
From the beginning, the mission – to occupy major South Vietnamese cities – was a military failure for the NVA. Accordingly, one can only imagine Giap’s relief when Walter Cronkite – “the most trusted man in America” – after reading the initial bulletin on the Tet attacks, stupidly asked the country:
“What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning this war”
Then, three weeks later, Uncle Walter delivered Giap an unexpected victory when he spoke these words during his 2/27/1968 CBS News broadcast:
“We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and in Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds…. To say that we are mired in a stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion…. It seems increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out will be to negotiate.”
Tet also taught the Vietnamese the incredible power of visual imagery on the weak-minded........
Cont'd at The American Thinker |
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” (Thomas Paine, 1776) |
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