Wednesday, May 13, 2009

THE CASUALTY CON

THE most effective weapon terrorists have found to wield against us isn't the headline-grabbing suicide bomber or even the deadly roadside bomb, the IED. Such weapons can harm us, but they can't stop us.

Terror's super-weapon is the lie.

Lying about civilian casualties is the one sure way to impede or even halt US (or Israeli) operations, to force such tight restrictions on our troops that they can't win.

The casualty con's so effective as both propaganda and tactic that terrorists everywhere have adopted the technique. It's been so successful that our enemies long ago transitioned to the next phase: creating civilian casualties and blaming us.

It works.

The media love the charge. Our troops and pilots are always guilty -- even if proven innocent. Because so many on the left want us to be guilty the seldom even consider what they're being fed by the likes of the Taliban, al Aqeda, Hezbollah or Hamas...

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