On 1 Aug 2002 at 0:25, Hermit wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I would rise to the occasion myself... a pity that Infek isn't
still around - probably would have been more up his street.
>
> But you remind me of another point. If an "objective perspective" results
in Joe Dees' conclusions, then how come the Whitehouse now sees
"Around the world, from western Europe to the far east, many see the
United States as arrogant, hypocritical, self-absorbed, self-indulgent,
and
contemptuous of others." and "that Washington itself had done a lot to
undermine America's standing by its rejection of international treaties
on
the environment, the international criminal court and the global arms
race."
Which is what, I think, I have been saying for quite a while to the
apparent
discomfort of our "objective" friend.
>
That may be the opinion of some, but outside of the rabid Dar-al-Islami
Ummah, practically no nation or people I can think of objects to put
pursuit of Al Quaeda operatives wherever we can find them, with the
'host' nation's help if they will give it, and without it if they will not.
>
Yet now the Whitehouse considers that a marketing campaign is
required to change the opinion of the rest of the world - while not
addressing the fundamental problems underlying that opinion. It seems
that their thinking is as flawed as Joe Dees' appears to be. While this
approach may well succeed, indeed appears to, with an populace, well
conditioned by "quintessentially American" advertising, it is unlikely to
work with those still in full possession of their faculties.
>
For the cmpign against Al Quaeda, no advertising campaign is
necessary; the pictures of the crumbling Twin Towers has sufficed for
all but the Rabid Dar-Al-Islami Ummah, for which nothing (but our
demise) will do.
In other matters, in some cases we need to sell our policies better, and
in others we need to change them
>
After all, no matter how well one markets a "shit-burger", the smell
will continue to give them away to anybody who ignores the wrapping
and remains "objective" or at least, prepared to apply their critical
facilities, to what they swallow.
>
Would that that were true of Radical Islam, but its adherents seem to
have lost their olfactory and gustatory faculties regarding the mental
offal they imbibe and spew.
>
> Regards
>
> Hermit
>
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