...Modernization is crucial to winning the hearts and minds of Muslims worldwide who are bombarded with negative images of the West, Rumsfeld told the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Pentagon chief said today's weapons of war included e-mail, Blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras and Web logs, or blogs.
"Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but... our country has not adapted," Rumsfeld said.
"For the most part, the U.S. government still functions as a 'five-and-dime' store in an eBay world"...
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The Pentagon's propaganda machine still operates mostly eight hours a day, five days a week while the challenges it faces occur 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Rumsfeld called that a "dangerous deficiency."
He lamented that vast media attention about U.S. abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq outweighed that given to the discovery of "Saddam Hussein's mass graves"...
True, but the mass graves discovery gets more attention than the fact that Saddam got tons of military supplies and political support from the Reagan administration. And let's not forget this classic pic:
If you must wage a propaganda war, Rummy, you could at least pick a goddamn side...
