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2005-03-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-03-01 2:08:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 'bout time.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-01 3:12:04 AM|| 2005-03-01 3:12:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 if they really want to help the WOT, maybe they should expand the broadcasts to the EU and US.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-01 6:59:06 AM|| 2005-03-01 6:59:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 What they need to do is expand braodcasting to target the young men, those that commit Jihad. Programs like "Sex in the City" and "Baywatch" will either turn them to our side or torture their religiously 'pure' minds.

Posted by Charles 2005-03-01 7:22:43 AM|| 2005-03-01 7:22:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Officials say the Bush administration also plans to begin Arab-language satellite-television broadcasts to Europe later this year in a new escalation of its information war against Islamic extremism.

Anticipating the new dominant European language? If only the VOA would begin broadcasting to the information starved natives.

Posted by ed 2005-03-01 7:40:33 AM|| 2005-03-01 7:40:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Analysts also warned that expanded broadcasts could stir nationalist distrust of the United States and inadvertently strengthen the current government.
"Oh, dear, we mustn't do anything that might cause instability in the region! It might make the mullahs angry with us!"

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-01 10:10:19 AM|| 2005-03-01 10:10:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 See "29 Baathist Leaders Turned Over to Iraq", posted today. The old "stability" was Arafat and Saddam, the new "instability" features elections in Iraq and Afganistan, new candidates in Cairo, and Lebenese governments resigning. Who said instability was bad?

Posted by Bobby 2005-03-01 10:43:18 AM|| 2005-03-01 10:43:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Article: Analysts also warned that expanded broadcasts could stir nationalist distrust of the United States and inadvertently strengthen the current government.

"People could see it as a sign that an invasion is coming. Itâs the sort of thing that happens before nations build up their war effort," said Nancy Snow, a propaganda expert at California State University, Fullerton.

This was what they said about Voice of America broadcasts into the Soviet Union and Communist China during the Cold War. Nancy Snow is a left-wing propagandist who implies that the US doesn't have a free press because anti-American perspectives don't win out 100% of the time.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-03-01 12:19:38 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-03-01 12:19:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Programs like "Sex in the City" and "Baywatch" will either turn them to our side or torture their religiously 'pure' minds.

~~I need the royalties~~ Great idea!

Posted by David Hasselhof 2005-03-01 12:28:17 PM|| 2005-03-01 12:28:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 When "Sex in the City" and "Baywatch" become the flagships of American policy, I'll resign my citizenship. A grand promotion of ditz . . . Anyway, Moslem young men already don't have any trouble seeing women as dehumanized sex objects. Infantile male fantasy is just that. For cryin' out loud, people.

Nice one, 2B!` lol

Posted by ex-lib 2005-03-01 1:18:05 PM|| 2005-03-01 1:18:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Expand American culture...

What is one of the the most popular
Foreign TV shows in Russia?

Info from my mother-in-law

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-01 1:24:38 PM|| 2005-03-01 1:24:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 how about sick murder and pedophilia crime stories ?

"Mullah, she wrote"

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-01 1:46:04 PM|| 2005-03-01 1:46:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Anyway, Moslem young men already don't have any trouble seeing women as dehumanized sex objects..

Maybe the objective is to incapacitate the mullahs by giving as many of them as possible a case of Blue Balls.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-01 2:44:22 PM|| 2005-03-01 2:44:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Send them CSI in all its current iterations. They already believe American technology is close to magic -- CSI will demonstrate its infallibility.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-01 3:22:36 PM|| 2005-03-01 3:22:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 'Bout damn time.

Talk about being behind the curve....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-03-01 3:31:11 PM|| 2005-03-01 3:31:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 hee hee, worthy houmor Frank.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-01 5:56:33 PM|| 2005-03-01 5:56:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 We should send them "Desperate Housewives" and tell them that is how the middle class lives.

Posted by Formerly Dan 2005-03-01 10:46:52 PM|| 2005-03-01 10:46:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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