I just read about Bob Woodruff, the ABC News reporter being severely injured and maybe even killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq.

Our media is the biggest weapon we have in this terror war. The Western media is capable of shining a social spotlight on an individual with the luminosity and heat and supernova explosion in space.

I’d want it out of my face too, were I planning to take over the world and make everyone wear sheets on their heads. Some Americans tried, and some still try, the whole sheet over the head thing here in America. To be honest, it’s not that scary anymore over the television. Hell, we see legions of five year olds with sheets over their heads every Halloween as little ghosts ramble from snickers bars to sugar daddies here in the states.

The first concern of any fighting army should be the control and use of information against the enemy. But antecedent to this is the demand of knowing what your enemy’s media capability and skill of use is and how it can be used to inflict damage to your cause.

After all, if Vietnam taught us anything, it taught us that the loss of popular support for a war is devastating to the administration and the troops who are engaged in fighting it.

Imagine if one army was able to scare off, or even frighten away through threats and murder, the biggest weapon of the other side?

Well, that’s what terrorists are trying to do and the media needs to be aware of the sacrifices they are making by going over there. In my mind, they deserve a lot of credit for bravery and courage and I fear that this is getting lost in the Right’s War against the Media of the Left.

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