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...wartime, unfortunately, is not the best opportunity to make subtle appeals to hearts and minds. The distinction between fighting terrorism and fighting Islam may be clear in Cambridge, Mass., but it gets a lot fuzzier where the bombs are falling on Red Cross warehouses...
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...suggests Washington is digging in for a protracted propaganda war alongside the real conflict on the ground. Having Ross address Arab concerns in Arabic is a good start, and it certainly beats having Tony Blair and George Bush pronouncing on who is and who isn't being true to Islam - why, after all, would anyone in the Muslim world take their word for it? It's certainly necessary in a war in which the Taliban starts each day's news cycle with an afternoon press conference at its embassy in Islamabad denouncing the latest U.S. raids - press conferences that despite...
...course, is all about propaganda - the September 11 attacks were not designed to weaken his enemy's military capacity, but to send a message to potential supporters in the Arab world that the most powerful nation on earth is vulnerable. Bin Laden has always believed that a showdown between Islam and the West is inevitable, and the strikes were also calculated to provoke a retaliation that could be painted as an attack on Islam. And despite the strenuous efforts by Bush and Blair to dispel such fears, the danger is that images of civilian suffering in Afghanistan might turn Arab...