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Send Out Some Propaganda!!
That's all great and good and I truly hope there's a strategy behind this whole thing, but we've stilll got the big problem of propaganda. Al Qaida and Hizbollah have got the media eating out of their hands. They spin their stuff so well that they make defeats into victories. The U.S. can't even manage to get a victory to look like a victory. Seriously. Iraq had elections and right now the Iraqi security forces are fighting in the streets of Baghdad for their country. That's pretty significant, but all I ever hear is how things are terrible and the U.S. is losing.
All the while Al Qaida computer guys are coming onto western websites and spreading their ideas. Are we doing that? Is anybody going on to Al Qaida.com or whatever it is and telling them how we've captured such and such thousands of their members or how our intelligence network was able to find and kill Zarqawi.
Sometimes I think the U.S. went into this war on terror and some media-types decided we were a whipped dog before it even started. What's worse is nobody seems to care all that much to do anything about it. Where are the propaganda films like we used to have in WW II. In those days you couldn't see a movie without first getting an update on how we were winning on all fronts. Americans need some of that. I know all of the college kids with their newly-discovered intellectual snobbery and nose-rings will cry "Fascism" but who really cares about them or their whining anyway. They don't fight wars and they don't pay taxes.
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RE: where are the good-guy hackers??
comment by VnutZ on 01 September 2006
This is a war and those websites need to go.
I would liken the reason the sites do NOT come down is similar to the drug war. Sure you could bust all the little fish using cocaine. But wouldn't you rather have the dealer, the transporters or the suppliers? Leaving the page up and doing some real hacking allows them to figure out who is going there on a regular basis. You can build a network of accomplices to target certain individuals who may actually know somebody, know the video maker, know the financier. Simply taking down the site would be easy - the work is figuring out who made it, where they were posting from, etc.
For what its worth, there were once a whole lot of us trying to get the our service obligations transferred to the NSA to do that sort of thing. You can thank the senior officers who deemed it more important for us to do other jobs that made us technically irrelevant in the field by the time our service was up.
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