It is well worth listening to Daniel Kimmage analyze his co-authored study entitled: Iraqi Insurgent Media: The War of Images and Ideas.

What kind of war? A Jihad not a war of national liberation.

How does one know?

By the names they give their enemies in their press releases:
US forces are crusaders or worshippers of the cross Iraqi forces are apostates (deserve death according to Sharia)Iraqi national guards called idolaters (i.e., even lower than crusaders)Shite Mehdi army of antichrist

Shites are rejectionists.

Similarly, victory songs are Jihadi songs and these rather slick and sophisticated items produced by professional volunteers for distribution via Arab mass media are posted on web sites and directed not at other Iraqis but at the rest of us.

Similarly, victory songs are Jihadi songs and these rather slick and sophisticated items produced by professional volunteers for distribution via Arab mass media are posted on web sites and directed not at other Iraqis but at the rest of us.These are the materials which serve to recruit Jihadis world wide. Do you think leaving Iraq with our tail between our legs will decrease or increase the effectiveness of these recruitment tools? If, as I suspect, victory would increase the effectiveness of Jihadi propaganda, will it make us more or less safe?

Similarly, victory songs are Jihadi songs and these rather slick and sophisticated items produced by professional volunteers for distribution via Arab mass media are posted on web sites and directed not at other Iraqis but at the rest of us.These are the materials which serve to recruit Jihadis world wide. Do you think leaving Iraq with our tail between our legs will decrease or increase the effectiveness of these recruitment tools? If, as I suspect, victory would increase the effectiveness of Jihadi propaganda, will it make us more or less safe?As for the Iraqi civilians, there is little doubt that they will be the one to pay the highest price when the last helicopter leaves and they know it! Some of them had already the opportunity to meet these Jihadis, as Michael Yon reports .

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