What a succinct article - with enough numbers to give perspective, and to point out the 'self-cancelling' hideousness of:

the 'food' being ~indigestible, the motives subject to deliberate misinterpretations - and the means "all wrong and expensive"! (also deadly for some)

{sigh}

Maybe our most powerfully positive propaganda move of all (recent) time, might be:

Simply, *call off the war in Afghanistan*. Send in those 300 KTons alleged to be in Pakistan, guarded by sufficient armament to avert local-gang commandeeing of the convoy [but Only via prior agreement to these aims and that method]. This act, sincerely and evidently carried out - would confound the opposing brain-trust IMhO. At least buy valuable time for us to plot new! non-atrocities :-\ufffd
...and it would be: VASTLY CHEAPER than ANY other course.

This could only occur of course - were we to starkly realize that, what we are 'fighting' *now* is the nearest thing imaginable to:

A pure propaganda war. That of the sort waged by G\ufffdbbels "against the hearts and minds of the German People" - and won so decisively that.. (we all know).

I don't believe this is yet understoood by our leadership - sufficiently. I have it all wrong (in this One absolute characterization) or: our leaders do, thus far.


Ashton