At 06:55 PM 10/8/01, Jon wrote:
>In a message dated 10/8/01 7:42:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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><< You can't have it both ways. They say one thing to the international
>press, they say another thing to... >>
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>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.!")
How about _this_ translation:
c) "We are like Superman: invulnerable to capitalist Yankee infidel's
weapons! They can finish bombing our country back into the Pre-Cambrian,
and we will still be here! We are protected by Allah! We will be
victorious! Death to the infidels! Allah akabar!!"
(please pardon any misspellings)
>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.
(c) sounds like exactly the spin they would want.
-- Ronn! :)
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