The uncertain trumpet call

Submitted by Michael (United States), Dec 26, 2006 at 20:12

If Pres. Regan was the Great Communicator then Pres. Bush is a monastic, a non-communicator. The result is that the American people still today do not understand the gravity and peril that Islam's religious war of expansion and world conquest poses to them personally.

Sadly, the American public simply won't invest the time and energy to understand the threat. Instead, self-absorbed Americans in pursuit of happiness slouch indolently toward cynical slogans and simplistic narratives. These vacuous mantras are gleefully supplied by the anti-war, anti-American Left who's strongest tool is always deception, opinion manipulation, and propaganda. A democracy, like the capital markets, cannot function effectively and efficiently without adequate, accurate, and timely information.

This is the grand failure of the Bush Administration: the failure to inform the American people, like a Dutch Uncle, of the existential magnitude of the threat. We are faced with an enemy motivated by passionate, religous, and selfrighteous zeal. But the idea of an Islamic religous war is so onerous, so repugnant to secular sensiblities that the American leadership elite are loath to acknowledge the obvious.

In an ideological or religous war the dissemination of information and disinformaton (propaganda) is the most powerful weapon available for either side. Our Islamic enemies, with the liberal assistance of the Marxist Left, have mastered the artful science of psycological and psychotropic warfare. Contrast this adeptness with the clumsy inarticulateness of the Bush Administration which is unable to make a convincing case for national suvival. The Whitehouse and the State Department seem oblivious to the ignorance of the American public and paralysed by politically correctness. This self-censorship is imposed by the Left upon the weak of will, the rudderless and the inadequately informed.

The real contest is not for the hearts and minds of Iraqis but for the hearts and minds of the American people. The contest with militant Islam will be won or lost with the American electorate and their determination to win regardless of the costs in lives, time, and treasure because the cost of failure is cosmic and unthinkable.

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