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On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:05:23 +0100, "Paul J. Adam"
wrote: From a military point of view, that's like complaining about geography: why do the enemy never let you assault them downhill, over dry ground with good going yet plenty of nice concealing folds and tussocks, on a day not so hot you sweat to death during the assault nor so cold that certain important bits froze off waiting for H-Hour? There is a larger issue about the extent to which the military perspective is influenced by external social and cultural issues. Geography is (largely) beyond human agency to inform or alter, at least in the short term. The meejah issue is more malleable - my parallel would be to ask why are the Blue forces required to attack uphill, in poor weather, against prepared Red defences while their own supporting arms are curtailed? Why is the behaviour of Red Forces to kidnap, multilate and murder civilians and combatants alike not subjected to the same level of "war crimes" scrutiny? This is the problem for the military in places like Iraq - the subjective application of double-standards and the perpetuation of assumptive judgements formed and supported b the meejah. In many cases they reflect the assumptions of the host culture, but while that explains them, it does not legitimise them. "The meeja" exist as they are, just as the weather and the ground and the enemy do. Good commanders do what they can to gain benefit from them (like, making sure 'Our Story' is better TV than 'Their Story') while limiting the damage they can do. Not easy, but that's why good commanders are to be cherished. Indeed, but even without counter-propaganda, the doublethink, groupthink and downright hypocrisy of normal meejah coverage should not pass without question or challenge. This is a meejah problem in the first instance, as the meejah have as much responsibility to police each other as they do to bring politicians and generals down. Their failure to do this makes the problem a larger cultural and social one. Gavin Bailey -- I have enough of Windows error message which say "Intelligent life not detected at keyboard." You hear me good Bill! Not mess Eastern devil warrior. Yeah like Jackie Chan. Worse Bart Kwan-En. - Bart Kwan En |
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