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...Solo records from aged rock megastars often bring to mind a scene from the movie Broadcast News. A handsome TV anchor asks a nerdy reporter, "What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams?" The answer: "Keep it to yourself." Who wants to hear songs about the spiritual quests of people for whom financial security and social acceptance ceased to be pressing issues long ago? Rock is traditionally about youthful struggles, so it takes considerable talent to put the genre to work describing the lessons of a $90 per hour meditation class...
...better qualified to take on that assignment than Paul McCartney, now 59, and Mick Jagger, 58, both of whom have just released solo records? They have good resumes--one co-wrote Can't Buy Me Love, the other co-wrote (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction--and both have kept in practice as working musicians over the years. While Mick's new tranquillity gets old fast, it turns out that Paul actually has the grit to pull...
...flutter over Afghanistan, wishing villagers below a happy end to Ramadan "from the people of America." Near the print plant, a giant satellite dish beams a radio program with anti-Taliban messages to an air base in Oman, where crewmen rush a compact disk of the program to Commando Solo, a converted Air Force EC-130 plane packed with broadcasting gear. Commando Solo flies over Afghanistan, blanketing the country with the radio show for ten hours...
...organization like no other in the U.S. Army, made up of 1,200 special ops soldiers, academics, linguists and marketing experts, whose weapons are words and images. Since the U.S. bombing began Oct. 7, Air Force planes have dumped 18 million of the psywarriors' leaflets on Afghanistan, and Commando Solo has broadcast more than 800 hours of their radio shows...
...Psywarriors have found that "the truth is the best propaganda," says Col. James Treadwell, the 4th Group's commander. Otherwise, "you lose credibility," he explains, and the audience tunes out. Leaflets have explained how to use relief food packets and warned civilians to stay away from combat zones. Commando Solo's broadcasts mix world news stories with sales pitches. A recent show, for example, reported on United Nations efforts to organize Taliban opposition groups and ended with the plea: "this must happen for there to finally be peace in Afghanistan...