Very good article here, although a bit long. What the hell, take some time over the long weekend (assuming that's what you have—if not, then over the regular-sized weekend) to read it:
http://ift.tt/1xApuHZ
However, even if you don't feel up to reading the whole thing, I'd strongly recommend what I consider the best, most interesting part, pertaining to the 1991 Persian Gulf War (starts at about the halfway mark of the article). The beginning:
And what was especially interesting to me was that I, who was an ardent opponent of the Persian Gulf War (and mighty lonely, since we dissenters were a small percentage of the population), never had an inkling of this until just now.
And, the sad part of this is that George Bush "41" has come to be more and more revered as one of the most wonderful, most honorable guys ever to serve as President, rather than as just one more in the long line of piss-poor excuses for a leader that has afflicted these United States.
Quote:
Special Report: In the 1980s, the Reagan administration pioneered “perception management” to get the American people to “kick the Vietnam Syndrome” and accept more U.S. interventionism, but that propaganda structure continues to this day getting the public to buy into endless war, writes Robert Parry. |
http://ift.tt/1xApuHZ
However, even if you don't feel up to reading the whole thing, I'd strongly recommend what I consider the best, most interesting part, pertaining to the 1991 Persian Gulf War (starts at about the halfway mark of the article). The beginning:
Quote:
Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome The ultimate success of Reagan’s propaganda strategy was affirmed during the tenure of his successor, George H.W. Bush, when Bush ordered a 100-hour ground war on Feb. 23, 1991, to oust Iraqi troops from Kuwait, which had been invaded the previous August. Though Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had long been signaling a readiness to withdraw – and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had negotiated a withdrawal arrangement that even had the blessings of top U.S. commanders in the field – President Bush insisted on pressing ahead with the ground attack. Bush’s chief reason was that he – and his Defense Secretary Dick Cheney – saw the assault against Iraq’s already decimated forces as an easy victory, one that would demonstrate America’s new military capacity for high-tech warfare and would cap the process begun a decade earlier to erase the Vietnam Syndrome from the minds of average Americans. |
And what was especially interesting to me was that I, who was an ardent opponent of the Persian Gulf War (and mighty lonely, since we dissenters were a small percentage of the population), never had an inkling of this until just now.
And, the sad part of this is that George Bush "41" has come to be more and more revered as one of the most wonderful, most honorable guys ever to serve as President, rather than as just one more in the long line of piss-poor excuses for a leader that has afflicted these United States.
The Victory of ‘Perception Management’
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