In a message dated 10/8/01 7:42:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< You can't have it both ways. They say one thing to the international
press, they say another thing to... >>
IMHO, this seems rather stupid of them from a global public relations point
of view. If we bombed them and there was no damage, then, from their point
of view:
a) If we hear this we'll assume we probably missed and should go in again.
(I mean, if it were me, I wouldn't just say 'Oh gee, I missed. How brave of
them. Guess I should just pack it in and go home!'
and
b) They're deliberately walking away from of a lot of sympathy from the
Islamic world. ("Look at our dead. The Americans are killing us in cold
blood! Join with us in our Holy Jihad against the barbaric non-believers.!")
Then again, I'm an American. We broadcast every single broken bolt of our
trade center and Pentagon 24/7 and put faces on the usually faceless
statistic of our murdered civilians. Perhaps I just don't understand their
point of view, but it seems like the art of 'spin' seems lost on them.
Jon
