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Further cementing my belief that I’m attached to some sort of current through my digital appendages:

Washington Post: “The Pentagon Gets a Lesson From Madison Avenue”

Source:
http://tinyurl.com/2qwfb4

Text:

U.S. Needs to Devise a Different ‘Brand’ to Win Over the Iraqi People, Study Advises

By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 21, 2007; Page A01

In the advertising world, brand identity is everything. Volvo means safety. Colgate means clean. IPod means cool. But since the U.S. military invaded Iraq in 2003, its “show of force” brand has proved to have limited appeal to Iraqi consumers, according to a recent study commissioned by the U.S. military.

The key to boosting the image and effectiveness of U.S. military operations around the world involves “shaping” both the product and the marketplace, and then establishing a brand identity that places what you are selling in a positive light, said clinical psychologist Todd C. Helmus, the author of “Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation.” The 211-page study, for which the U.S. Joint Forces Command paid the Rand Corp. $400,000, was released this week.

Helmus and his co-authors concluded that the “force” brand, which the United States peddled for the first few years of the occupation, was doomed from the start and lost ground to enemies’ competing brands. While not abandoning the more aggressive elements of warfare, the report suggested, a more attractive brand for the Iraqi people might have been “We will help you.” That is what President Bush’s new Iraq strategy is striving for as it focuses on establishing a protective U.S. troop presence in Baghdad neighborhoods, training Iraq’s security forces, and encouraging the central and local governments to take the lead in making things better.

Many of the study’s conclusions may seem as obvious as they are hard to implement amid combat operations and terrorist attacks, and Helmus acknowledged that it could be too late for extensive rebranding of the U.S. effort in Iraq. But Duane Schattle, whose urban operations office at the Joint Forces Command ordered the study, said that “cities are the battlegrounds of the future” and what has happened in Baghdad provides lessons for the future. “This isn’t just about going in and blowing things up,” Schattle said. “This is about working in a very complex environment.”

In an urban insurgency, for example, civilians can help identify enemy infiltrators and otherwise assist U.S. forces. They are less likely to help, the study says, when they become “collateral damage” in U.S. attacks, have their doors broken down or are shot at checkpoints because they do not speak English. Cultural connections—seeking out the local head man when entering a neighborhood, looking someone in the eye when offering a friendly wave—are key.

The most successful companies, the Rand study notes, are those that study their clientele and shape their workplace and product in ways that incorporate their brand into every interaction with consumers.

Wal-Mart’s desired identity as a friendly shop where working-class customers can feel comfortable and find good value, for example, would be undercut if telephone operators and sales personnel had rude attitudes, or if the stores offered too much high-end merchandise. For the U.S. military and U.S. officials, understanding the target customer culture is equally critical.

Helmus recommends expanding military training to include shaping and branding concepts such as cultural awareness, and the study underscores the perils of failing to understand your consumer.

“Certain things do not translate well,” the study warned. “Danger lies behind assumptions of similarity.” A gesture Bush made during his 2005 inaugural parade—the University of Texas “hook ‘em horns” salute with raised index and pinkie fingers—stands for the “sign of the devil” in some cultures and an indication of marital infidelity in others. A leaflet dropped to intimidate Iraqi insurgents, the study noted, “also reached noncombatants” and “gave everyone who picked it up the ‘evil eye.’ “

“Words cause similar cultural confusion,” it said. The Arabic word “jihad,” for example, has religious connotations for Muslims; its repeated use to connote terrorism is insulting and also perversely lends legitimacy to violent acts.

Schattle acknowledged that much of what works for consumer advertising in the United States might not translate well in Baghdad. But urban ops, he said, is all about experimenting and adapting to new realities.

“We want to look at new concepts, new business practices, to see if there are things that we can learn,” he said. Since his office was established after the U.S. military issued a new doctrine for urban warfare in 2002, “we’ve been collecting lessons learned from all over the world,” he said. “Not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but places like the Philippines and South America. Wherever there have been fights, we went out and looked at them.”

The challenge for the advertising study, he said, was to find “something we can learn from Madison Avenue or from the marketers, the best in the world, that might help us when we’re trying to deliver a message about what democracy is.” In Iraq, Schattle said, the “urban population is the center of gravity” and the problem is “how we influence them to be on our side, or at least not be an enemy” when “what they see is armor.” The goal of such studies, Schattle said, is to distill what works and incorporate it into future training.

Adversaries are doing their own shaping on Iraq’s urban battlefields. While intimidation, coercion and assassination might not make them beloved, such techniques effectively limit public outreach to U.S. forces, the Rand study notes. Enemy forces have also learned that “doing good works is a classic approach to winning friends and influencing people” and frequently provide basic services that the U.S. military is unable to match.

At the same time, Helmus said, U.S. military and civilian authorities must stop thinking of themselves as a “good-idea factory” whose every thought has greater merit than those of their customers. “Procter & Gamble doesn’t even do that,” he said.

From the supplement:
http://tinyurl.com/2mmjh8

Worst Face Forward
A Rand Corp. report commissioned by the U.S. Joint Forces Command provides examples of how misinterpreted images have damaged the U.S. government’s credibility in Iraq, Afghanistan and other nations.

So .... in the effort to strip a nation of it’s sovereignty, it’s culture, it’s religion and kill or incarcerate all who resist - and replace it with a puppet government in thrall to the US, so that American billionaires can gain unlimited access to it’s energy resources and markets...engineering a succession of paid-for dictators and tyrants - disposing of them when convenient or inconvenient - killing several million Iraqis through sanctions engineered by the CIA and the British Secret Services - killing a few million more through wars maneuvered by the Pentagon - with weapons and intelligence supplied by the Pentagon...and then occupying the country in an war illegal by every standard set by western civilization since the treaty of Westphalia...that could all be brought to a successful conclusion by marketing technique and branding?

A thought that occurs to me as I read this and the other latest newsletter “Your fear is all they have”...is how you juggle images of evil in an effort to try and say something that isn’t said. There is no analysis, no insight into this lurid evil ripped from the tabloids or it’s internet equivalents ....2 dimensional, clippings....scripts for tv on the cheap. Your newsletter said nothing - the horror stories were just effect that led to nothing - they were a displacement....a projection.

And here you are imagining ways to lend a hand to the American occupation of Iraq and subsequently the entire middle east - and why not? maybe world domination if consumer needs are met and this branding thing is turns out to be more than 1/2 the fucking obvious and another 1/2 a lot of marketing bullshit.

“Win the war on terror and save America” - and other delusions. Is this the latest effort to rebrand?

If by “rebrand” you mean “rethink existing approaches”, then yeah.

If by “rebrand” you mean “cynical marketing of actual blood”, then no.

I’m sorry you think my work is so vapid, but I’m glad you stick around just the same.

It is amusing to read someone who writes fairly well, assumes good intentions, and yet transmit so fluidly from la-la land.
Interesting btw., the years of official murder of at least several hundred thousand a year I mention above are not courtesy google search, tabloids or the dream/nightmare factories you derive the horror figures you write of in your screed.
It’s hard copy, documented by numerous responsible agencies, and not denied by your government, any government, on the contrary - the record is open and it is comprehensive.

Is this unreal compared to ‘stuff’ you find by links you receive from buddies via email? Is it branded incorrectly? Has reality failed to market itself to your consumer niche effectively?

I’m interested by the idea of how basically good people with good intentions can be sold and owned in terms of their mind, by sheer ephemera.

“Win the War On Terror” with better marketing/ branding… ‘Bring Democracy to the Middle East’ ? Wow.

Someone I respect said - when the mba’s and the marketers take over from the builders and the makers - thats when it’s really over. That’s when there is nothing left. That is when vultures gather.

When did I say anything about “bringing Democracy to the Middle East”?  How do you know “google search” is my only tool?  How do you know I use “stuff I find by links I recieve from buddies via email?”

Just like the last time you typed up an attack on me, this one is full of assumptions about what I beleive, who I am and how I live, that you have no evidence for.  You’re projecting a lot of your frustrations with the world at large onto me, personally.

Overall, I would just like to take this moment to admit you are, morally and intellectually, clearly my superior.  I’m glad I can at least be of use as a case study of how “good people with good intentionts can be sold and owned in terms of their mind”—because otherwise I’d be wondering if you’re wasting your time by sticking around.

Fortunately, you’re not.

sure....ok, i’m an egomaniac. I’m fond of you also. How about the obvious? The ‘winning the war on terror’ has been rebranding and marketing from the start. Israel had a market image and brand resistance problem as the ‘only middle eastern democracy’ while assassinating, torturing, massacring folks and driving them from their homes and land and needed to re-brand the idea to market the concept better in the United States, or they who writes their cheques. Hollywood ,television and print have worked years to re-brand and market the Arab/Muslim world as terrorists and ‘unbrand’ them as people fighting for their freedom, their homes and families, it wasn’t enough. Stage Left: Enter ‘Al Queda’ a CIA funded organization....headed by a man whose family is intimately connected to the family fortunes of the current dynasty of political puppets. Saudi Arabia or the US? You decide. Coincidence? Natch....a complicated read.
Your saying you want to ‘rethink existing approaches’. What is the end to these ‘approaches’ . A kinder, gentler assassinating, torturing, massacring folks and driving them from their homes and land? Because thats the objective...currently rebranded as ‘bringing democracy to the middle east’ So your saying you want to ‘rethink existing approaches’ and diversify to different market segments? And then what? Murder everyone else? Or will hard reality and difficult experience finally get you to admit and realize; just males over 15 might do it? The next generation will be more marketable?

What you don’t state about the “Winning The War on Terror”, is that it’s going to be difficult because the terrorist is your market… and your the tool and the collateral. Your country is .the number one murderer of civilians by several hundred thousand times. The current brand is ‘Death from Above - baby’. Although they are rethinking existing approaches with new slogans, adding ‘burning like a nuclear firewind- baby’. Hard to reconcile with psychedelic culture, inadvisable communications with alien entities, or train spotting - but it’s out in the open and inarguable. But at the end of the day thats - Thats the steak, not the sizzle.

So, although I openly state that your a wonderful rascal, an outrageous character, have tremendous taste in liquor, mind candy and fine textiles, and a fine spinner of beats ..,I admit your right..., like the last attack I typed up on you full of assumptions on what you believe and how you live that I have no evidence for - I’m projecting a lot of my frustrations with the world at large onto you, personally. The frustration is about this - ‘get real - grow up’. I don’t mean buy Japanese and invest the savings. I mean time to get serious - right about now. Who are you? Are you American? A Real American? Do you believe all that hype about the inalienable rights of man - the right to life, home and the pursuit of happiness?  Or are you a tool of the corporate future? The end man?

I think your right, I want to know if I am wasting my time. Thats why I ask, in all humbleness, why you write such shit as this article and others. I know how I lack ‘net etiquette’,… my bad. I apologize. I’m like this in person too - a real asshole unless you know me. Thats why I read the crap you write and wonder furiously about what this person is about. Where does this ‘rebranding and rethinking’ mass death and murder under corporate aegis come from. Are you for real? Lets hear more. I’m interested. Lets have a laugh, But don’t give me anymore of your new and improved sunday fucking afternoon sizzle. It’s not that I’m morally and intellectually superior, you do flatter me....I just see through bullshit - I’m edumacated....lets have the steak with the sizzle. How are you going to re-brand mass death and murder via the US taxpayer - specifically. Also, why are you going to do it. People like myself will ask tough questions - like, are you a total tool or are you insane. Thats how they talk. How are you going to answer? Or do those people not count?
What about the really, really hard job that some will think your ducking. Like taking back America and giving it and it’s government again to Americans. Let’s be serious, thats the big job. And all that marketing, branding shit, is an admission it’s too big a job and it’s game over - the vultures have gathered.  It would take growing up and being within yourself, very fucking serious. Knowing what you are talking about instead of pulling it out your ass. Realize what’s at stake. It’s not a joke. What time is it soul brother, right about now?

How are you going to re-brand mass death and murder via the US taxpayer - specifically. Also, why are you going to do it. People like myself will ask tough questions - like, are you a total tool or are you insane. Thats how they talk. How are you going to answer? Or do those people not count?

^^Did you read the article?

I seriously have to ask that, based on your questions.  The argument I’m making is that the “War on Terror” end and that US troops get withdrawn all over the world, and that the budget that enabled all that imperialism get put towards international aid instead.

As for “re-branding” the “image” of the war, that’s not the argument I’m making.

What about the really, really hard job that some will think your ducking. Like taking back America and giving it and it’s government again to Americans. Let’s be serious, thats the big job. And all that marketing, branding shit, is an admission it’s too big a job and it’s game over - the vultures have gathered. It would take growing up and being within yourself, very fucking serious. Knowing what you are talking about instead of pulling it out your ass. Realize what’s at stake. It’s not a joke. What time is it soul brother, right about now?

Of course that game is over, my friend.  It was over before I was born.  What’s at stake is not the fate of American Democracy, it’s the fate of the human species.  That my definition of “what time it is.”

True, your article does start with those claims and has my attention before it sinks into absolute compliance with Fox_News.  After all there is a “war on terror” going on. Oh ya, I did read it....

First, thanks for making me proud to be an american.

“If you’re really a proud American, stop being afraid. These terrorists are chumps, losers, and low-grade dipshit human scum. Despite what Bill Maher said during a videotaped cocaine hangover, the terrorists really are cowards. Suicide bombers are cowards. “

What did Maher say?

“"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly. Stupid maybe, but not cowardly.”

I’m sure everyone out here in readerland, at least every proud american, agrees with you that there is one, approved mantra that must be repeated from President Bush - Fox news right down to crazy ol’ brainsturbator’s thirtyseven.
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These terrorists are chumps, losers, and low-grade dipshit human scum.”

Anyone who would fight killing, bombing and exploitation by america and it’s agents loses any right to be anything but ‘low-grade dipshit human scum’.
This in; straight from 7th shakti zen dharma land.
So, the real heros write tepid little websites filled with tales of middleclass craaziness. Big advice today? do dmt and contact aliens. Little spot on winning the war on terror in your spare time - turn a profit with google ad sense banners. The straight dope. Tell me more....

“All around the world, most humans like Americans. Many of them will complain about the American government, but they all like Americans. All around the world, most humans are too decent to think they deserve to kill other human beings. Most humans are too decent to do something like blow themselves up on a bus full of women and children, or fly a plane into a skyscraper. Most humans are too decent to shoot children dead from long range, or torture and kill helpless prisoners.”

Buddy, what suburbia do you hail from? All ‘round the world decent people are facing a different reality than you seem to be unaware of, despite it being in front of your head...........countries, economies, livelihoods, families, friends destroyed as collateral damage ‘unfortunately’ ....indecent people tend to find their attention-span wanders away from psychedelics and nutty impressionist interpretations of omni-personal ur-reality. Perhaps now is NOT the time for wonderbread words of wisdom from the superior culture of the east via the suburban ashram.
Internationally, decent peoples affections for the american tourist, thrillseeker, backpacker, global corprorations, military and mercenary is wavering slightly...which may shock you but there are strong indications. Of course rebranding might change this. Generally, people are known to be such sheep.
However indications are strong yet false, that soon Americans could be hated everywhere, a serious brand problem, for a long long time, even where there is mastercard....by people who claim to be decent. Imagine that.
Of course, at Brainsturbator we are concerned with the fate of the human species, not the fate of American Democracy. Thats why the article ‘winning the war on terror’ deals with the problem by flying over it at 35.000 feet, dropping a wide payload and aiming to please everyone. We’re all human after all. Which unfortunately, sounds nice but is not the problem.
The problem might be, that people who are blessed with a democracy, prefer to be farmed out, brainsturbized, afloat on fantasies rather than sparing a moment to wake up and exercise that democracy as members of the human species able to do it.

But of course you have solutions, while complainers like me have nothing but problems........you suggest getting sly with terror color codes to stop being predictable....the whole deal is uneconomical......and.....

ISLAM REALLY IS A PROBLEM

Thank you very much for your repeated invitations to comment and the excellent, above-rate hospitality here at Brainsturbator. I regret I find your articles of hollywood boogiemen, texas nazi’s, pedophiles, essays on Jesus getting a smackdown from Socrates as imagined by trendoid lefty brownshirts who live on mom’s visa and try to save the world from religion through propaganda...and everything else that appeals to those who have made a best friend and invaluably weak and supplicant enemy with their flat screen television and it’s internet analogue - to be irrelevant....correct me if you think i am wrong - but you seem to promote stupidity. You cultivate the character of enlightened hipster connoisseur, You hit all the hot spots - pull out of Iran - win the war on terror - dipshit scum - pyschedelics - nazi’s. - the superior culture of the east.  A dynamic .html head reading scripts of left field consensus reality? Fleshing it out to demonstrate it’s futility? Do you really think your advise to the White house or the Pentagon will allay what comes next?

“The fate of the human species”

No, I really do stand by my assessment of anyone who thinks their Cause is so important they get to kill people for it as “low grade dipshit human scum,” in addition to “cowards.”

As is often the case reading your—lengthy—rants against me, I get the sensation I am somewhere between an effigy and a punching bag for you.  I’m glad you’re getting this off your chest, but most of it is only tangentially related to me.  You’ve made your disdain for me perfectly and repeatedly clear: this is about as much of a response as I’ll be giving you from here on out.  Nothing personal, it’s just a waste of time for me to help you do this e-catharsis thing.

Brave of you. Your judgements against these ‘low grade dipshit scum”, in addition to “cowards”. Real grit.

My remarks are not related tangentially, but directly to your articles. It is as you say, a waste of time as you never did plan to answer my accusations that you deal in fantasies that deny the actual reality that is in front of your head.
Your answer is that it’s a personal attack...nothing to do with reality...really nothing to do what’s going on… it’s personal and against you. The idea that the reality of the situation is a illegal war which the medical journal Lancet records as killing 10.000 civilian Iraqis a month over the course so far. and are engaged for another illegal war against Iran....is irrelevant to the subject as this is a personal attack on you for the purpose of e-catharsis. And nothing to do with reality.

Nice diversion. Don’t stop and actually think. No concept what reality is? It’s just a personal attack or a bad news broadcast. Pretend it isn’t there and it goes away.....10 thousand or so dead Iraqis a month is a state of mind after all isn’t it? It’s not an actual thing.... like real nazis in south america or dipshit scum you don’t know or understand even one iota..

Sorry to have personally attacked you. Especially since you have no answers other than a few assessments on things you know nothing about and have no intention of trying to understand outside of what your told.
My attacks on you are not personal, believe it. My attack is on what you write and your inertia to do little more than spin a few angles of boilerplate and make no effort to think about what you are saying and what it really means. You might as well just go work for Bush or Hollywood - the clueless boho hipster is a niche market that needs targeting.

Again, if you’re going to discuss what I actually wrote, I didn’t write that the war needs a cute new friendly face, or some “marketing spin.”

I wrote that the war should stop, immediately, and that the US should withdraw our troops from all our international military bases.  I wrote that the military budget should be converted to international aid, and the remaining surplus be devoted to domestic infrastructure and our endless litany of problems at home.

10,000 dead Iraquis is an actual thing—an actual thing that serves no purpose, in terms of the stated goals of the War on Terror, and in fact does nothing but make our future into a more dangerous place.

The combination of your refusal to see these basic points, your insistence on attacking me over points I haven’t even made, and the venom with which you’re continually talking down to me—it all adds up to you coming off as more of a troll than someone with any actual questions.

If you’d actually like answers, try simply asking succinct questions instead of burying them inside multiparagraph diatribes on my stupidity, arrogance, and moral bankruptcy.

I’m not a lawyer using evasion and prevarication to score a point whether right or wrong.

First a multi-paragraph diatribe - then a couple un-succinct questions:

That the US should withdraw it’s troops and redistribute the budget. Seemed to me an anodyne statement thrown out there to cover all contingencies and establish yourself as the thoughtful peacemaker. That is my impression.... blanket statements of good intentions that mean nothing and are never going to be enacted in anyway that doesn’t cause more harm and create more evil.
Ever hear the expression ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’? The general idea is that ducking reality under the cover of good intentions never works.... you’ll just go to hell ignorant instead of aware....which means faster and more completely.

Lets try one point first......... that the ‘terrorists’ are low-grade, dipshit scum. 
I defend their right to be taken at face value. Anything else is closing of one’s mind.
EVERYONE is entitled to a defense, an advocate and to be heard without prejudice. Otherwise any claims of justice or human intelligence are lies. Plain - Simple. This is why my points ask if you are a moral coward. You seem to affect a persona in pursuit of enlightenment - but the brain work of actually trying to understand others from different realities you duck completely with what seems a conditioned reflex, unless dealing with socially accepted juvenile rebellion like psychedelics. alien abductions or wavy-gravy art....which you spend a lot of time thinking of.....only making summary judgements when dealing with reality.

(not that i condemn dealing with psychedelics, alien abductions and wavy-gravy art. I just condemn treating the ‘war on terror ‘with the same or less gravity than those enjoyable subjects)

Succinct Questions -
So the terrorists are low-grade dipshit scum… So to your mind - this ‘terror war’ is just a case of lowgrade dipshit scum attacking the United States. Is all muslim hostility towards the US originate from dipshit scum?

Before George Bush took office, he campaigned on bringing the troops home. Unfortunately, the actions of a handful of lowgrade, dipshit scum tied his hands and led the US to a larger, longer and more expensive deployment than WWII.
What is the correlation between the points in your article and George Bush before his hands were tied by the lowgrade dipshit scum. The assessments in your article and assessments of Fox News? What are the chances, given your beliefs, that your hands could also be tied by lowgrade, dipshit scum? Likely or unlikely? What is the direct correlation between your statements and Bush/ Fox News? Are you aware of it?

Concerning that correlation: everything we know about these lowgrade dipshit scum has been filtered by a controlled, compliant and embedded media. Much evidence released to the public on the lowgrade dipshit scum have been exposed as planted and faked. For example the koran, letters and video tapes of Atta expressing his posthumous wishes were almost immediately written off as planted evidence and withdrawn from intelligence regarding Atta’s movements prior to 911.
It is incontestable that we have very little of the real story behind the terrorists. Any information we do have is unclassified because it has been discarded as useless. Very little of it points directly to the terrorists being lowgrade, dipshit scum. Only regarding Atta is such a characterization made. In the rest we have a few successful, promising people giving up affluent lives for fanatic causes.

Where they too cowardly to face their affluent lives and spend money like decent people? Is it dipshit to oppose decrepit oligarchies and dictators nailed into place by the US? Would only scum defend Palestinians and consider their cause as anything but lowgrade? Is it only the lowgrade, the dipshits and the scum who give their lives to a cause - who die fighting injustice?

Or are you claiming the scum where just zombie-like slasher/murderers that espoused no causes and where only looking to harm as many highschool cheerleaders as they could possibly get their metallic appendages into?

Some people accuse you in multi-paragraph diatribes of just serving up the same incontestable bullshit we’ve been hearing all along from Bush and Fox news and peppering it with the usual ‘good intentions’ like bringing the troops home and buying everyone puppies with the money saved.  Any indication at all that the personal attacks point out very large holes in your world view? Holes in your world view, exactly where they are meant to be?

apologies for the multi- paragraph diatribes and un-succinct questions.

etype - 29 July 2007 09:33 PM

Succinct Questions -
So the terrorists are low-grade dipshit scum… So to your mind - this ‘terror war’ is just a case of lowgrade dipshit scum attacking the United States. Is all muslim hostility towards the US originate from dipshit scum?

The vast majority of muslim hostility towards the US is from perfectly rational people who are justified in their anger.  Anyone willing to kill women and children over their grievances is low grade, dipshit, human scum.  Anyone willing to murder civilians on orders is low grade, dipshit, human scum.

To my mind, this “terror war” is a case of the military industrial intelligence complex manipulating public reaction to spectacular terrorist attack in order to get public support—or at least mute compliance—for a global open-ended conflict against a barely defined threat.

The ‘women and children’ line is heavily overdone and is heard primarily in low level propaganda. One can often hear this cliche used as a rebuke as to why one is not recycling waxed cardboard starbucks coffee cups. You don’t establish yourself as a saint as much as a naif when you recycle cliches when discussing a topic that requires the use of your brain to think.  The US military kills women and children on a daily basis, it’s called collateral damage - i’ve yet to hear you condemn this with anything more than a cough and a sneeze. In the last 75 years they have killed and incinerated more women and children than the rest of the world combined. As a US citizen I don’t think sanctimoniousness about terrorism is really rational unless you feel you can pull off mind boggling epic scale hypocrisy without the excuse of being cognitively impaired.
Again, what is the correlation between your article and Fox_News?

Acknowledge that if you take thirtyseven and put him in mohammar’s shoes the world becomes completely different. The same when you take mohammar and put him in thirtyseven’s shoes. And yet it’s the same world. Where is the huge disconnect? And who do you think is more disconnected?