I was
having a tough time today coming up with my weekly Blog post. Most of the time
writing comes pretty easily to me, but today was just one of those days.
Perhaps it was bonding with the plumbers who were replacing the Hot Water
Heater. Perhaps it was slaving away on a paper dealing with the new EU Data
Privacy regime. Whatever it was -- today was a tough one.
Determined
to find something I came across an article from Reuters “Strikes on al Qaeda
leave only “handful” of top targets” (see http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/22/us-usa-panetta-saudi-idUSBRE85L05320120622).
The headline struck my fancy.At first I
was going to write about the kind of pin point campaign that might be needed to
overwhelm the remaining targets inducing them to surrender. The article went on
to say there were only 8 targets left.
If it were
targeted against these 8 – would they feel cornered or emboldened or would they
even give a sh*t?
Then it
dawned on me – the real target of any message from that article is other
terrorist groups and their leadership. The message is that if we want to, the
US will expend much of its treasure and we will be uncharacteristically
relentless in tracking down and destroying terrorist targets.
I could be
cynical and say the motivation behind this effort is the fact that this is an
election year and that the Commander-in-Chief wants to bulk up his defense bona
fides or I could say that the US has adapted to the new kind of asymmetric war
that is terrorism. Please don’t interrupt today’s illustration as an
exemplification of my political views, it just happened to reflect today’s
theme.
Alternatively
it could be just another story that has no PSYOP alternative meaning.
I’ll let
you sort it out. Have a good weekend, or for those of you reading this after 25
June 2012, I hope you had a good weekend.
(Photo
Source: Google Image Search; credited to: http://afunnyfeminist.tumblr.com/
I know it should be a 12, but I figured y’all could use a bit of your
imagination)
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