The program also served a more insidious function: It became a propaganda tool for convincing the American publicāespecially those with liberal tendenciesāthat the US-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan were benevolent missions
So who were the targets of the psyops again? Iāll admit it worked on me. I wonder if thereās even a fuzzy line between psyops and marketing?
It just fits right in the national narrative of āweāre the good freedom guys, canāt do no wrongā - thatās what makes it work.
I want so badly for that to be true. I know itās unAmerican of me.
Counterpunchās ideology is showing.
And they say you canāt make money with a liberal arts degree.
Seriously, guys? You let the contractor hire people who donāt speak the language to gather data on the locals? I know that watertight contracting is hard; but you can boil that one right down into a bullet point.
A marriage between war and marketing?!?
Imagine the lovely offspringā¦
In fairness, if I were handed the relatively hopeless task of āwinning hearts and mindsā; Iād consider the local puppies to be an excellent place to start. They arenāt terribly influential hearts and minds; but they sure are easier to please.
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