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You Too Can Win the IO Fight in Afghanistan
June 22, 2009 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 10:36am | 16 Comments
My colleague Kristin Lord has been asking around, trying to find out who is in charge of our communications efforts in Afghanistan. The answer, apparently, is you. Abu Muqawama readers are hereby invited to participate in the "Why Afghanistan Matters" video contest. The snarkiest entries will be posted here.
I can give you a link to a
I can give you a link to a Reuters story of AQ -Core that might indicate why it matters...sorry, my snark fails me..
A.Q to resume focus on far enemy - US
I find it interesting that they offer a Hudna - 10 year truce, if we withdraw from all Muslim lands.
Abu Arabic - shhhh...the truth is Sepah has won the battle to take control of their servers....trust no one...
Very transparent and aenemic
Very transparent and aenemic PSYOP.
Gen. Chrystal has announced
Gen. Chrystal has announced that air attacks will be reduced in order to win the hearts and minds of the afghanistans.
I say that the heart and minds of the pashtuns will only be won when the foreign forces collectively convert to Islam.
Respect from the tribes, however, may be won by military victories.
The Hussein Obama doctrine of submission to islamism will fail also in Afghanistan.
re: Visitor on June 22,
re: Visitor on June 22, 2009
Eh, what?
Re comment by el mestengo
Re comment by el mestengo negro -
PSYOP is when WE make the video. For the contest, YOU make the video, and as long as it doesn't violate normal rules of decency, copyright or endanger the troops, it qualifies. Up until now, most of the troops in AFG have been restricted from expressing themselves on YouTube altogether - yet the insurgents have no such rules. Think you can do better than the insurgents? Send us your entry!
For details, check out the website,, Youtube channel, or follow on Twitter.
To apply the logic of Ernest
To apply the logic of Ernest Hemingway's response to Gertrude Stein's "a rose is a rose is a rose," "a rose is a rose is an onion," from his novel on guerrilla warfare, For Whom the Bell Tolls, propaganda is propaganda is PSYOP, despite who makes it. The sponsor of this contest is hardly objective, is it? Any takers on the proposition, "videos that assert Afghanistan doesn't matter won't get selected"?
There are other web sites
There are other web sites for the videos "why Afghanistan Doesn't Matter" :-) And Russian media agree with your assertion. But this contest has been sponsored based on the belief that if the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, from 42 countries, who have been to Afghanistan, simply show the rest of us why they were serving and what they saw in Afghanistan, you are also likely to agree that Afghanistan matters.
There are other web sites
There are other web sites for the videos "why Afghanistan Doesn't Matter" :-) And Russian media agree with your assertion. But this contest has been sponsored based on the belief that if the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, from 42 countries, who have been to Afghanistan, simply show the rest of us why they were serving and what they saw in Afghanistan, you are also likely to agree that Afghanistan matters.
Bwhahahahahaha!!!
Bwhahahahahaha!!!
Afghanistan Matters? Only if you want to run pipeline from Iran through Pakistan to India. Other wise it hard to justify why spending billions if not trillions of dollars on COIN operations to benefit a corrupt government, an uneducated populace, and a country of little or no natural resources. Unless opium and heroin can be a considered natural resource and industrial product. Or beards. Bwhahahahaha!!!
A counter terrorism mission is more defensible than COIN and determining whether Afghanistan matters.
To Iraq I say. To Iraq. It has resources, a relatively educated and literate population, and a better future than Afghanistan.
We've received 9 contest
We've received 9 contest entries from 4 NATO nations and would love it if AM readers could have a look at the contest channel to help us determine our winners - until the end of October.
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