Violent propaganda

The effect of the action you describe would be to enrage otherwise sympathetic Muslims, and to overwork the terrorist organizations with the flood of new recruits you would generate.You'd be confirming the worst things that the jihadists say about the cultures of the West. You'd be rising (sinking?) to their expectations.

We wouldn't be demoralized; we'd be moralized. We'd be out in the streets calling for a third and fourth term for W. So hypersensitive, in fact, that it would turn them into terrorists. You don't seem to have understood a single objection leveled against your plan, which is weird because every single one of us in this thread are telling you the same thing. Maybe I can make it simpler for you.It's completely appropriate for the military to employ words and pictures - it's called "propaganda", btw - and they do, already. But the specific propaganda you propose would make more terrorists. It would make more people want to attack the US. In essence this is the "weapon" you propose the US start using:

For what reason? As you pointed out, when Theo Van Gogh drew verses from the Koran on a woman's naked body, somebody stabbed a manifesto into his chest about 30 times.I'd say that's a pretty graphic foreshadow of the effects your plan would have on the Muslim world. They wouldn't be demoralized; they'd be galvanized. They wouldn't dispair; they'd be buoyed on righteous outrage. The West would reap a whirlwind of destruction if your plan was implemented.You're doing to have to do better wth a rebuttal than "I think you're wrong."

In what way?

Congratulations, government geniuses. Wasn't this why we went to war? To keep Iraq from handing out WMD's to terrorist organizations and other rogue states?Oh, what a surprise. Like most of the administration's policies the result was exactly what they set out to prevent. It's like Midas in reverse. Everything they touch turns to shit. That's always what it's about for you people, isn't it? Fuck the real-world consequences, as long as you can stick it to some hippie liberal. Of course, the joke's on you - this is exactly what we said would happen before the war - that going to war would put more WMD's in the hands of terrorists, not less. So, spin away. You've earned it.Congratu-fuckin'-lations. What is it going to take, out of curiosity, to get you and your ilk to begin taking the War on Terror and our nation's security seriously? This isn't fun and games time. This isn't Open-Phones day on Rush Limbaugh. These are people's lives. And people like you are putting them at risk just so that you can play pundit on the "internets".

No offense, but if our hearalded "intel" couldn't tell us something that I heard from the greasy hippies on my street corner, all our "intel" isn't worth two shits.Don't give me that crap about "the best knowledge we had at the time." That wasn't the best knowledge. How do I know that? Because they were fuckin' wrong!There's no excuse for that failure, and far too many people failed for it to be coincidental stupidity.C'mon. That doesn't pass the smell test. Our intel guys are good, we recruit the best and we pay them a lot of money. If they were that wrong it was on purpose. And whose purpose? Well, who had the most to gain? Look it doesn't take a genius. It just takes a willingness to look at the facts, and moreover, to stop treating this stuff like some kind of game. Our lives are at risk. When is that going to dawn on people like you?