Pallywood!

Yesterday I posted about Slate magazine, a western media outlet, running a special series of 5th year Iraq invasion commemorative articles.

The premise: we fucked up in Iraq
The question: why? (which Slate writers took to mean "who among us is to blame?")

A series about the war, predicated on our guilt and incompetence in having waged it in the first place. The western tradition of self critique and introspection on full glorious display.

On the other side of the cultural divide, I offer an example of how the enemies of western liberalism grapple with issues of similar self critique and introspection. How, you ask? They don't. They instead craft their own narrative before the story even gets reported - staging scenes of conflict in order to best retain victim status.

This 20 minute film demonstrates with alarming clarity how and why we are losing the "public relations" aspect of the long war against radical Islamists. We are -rightly- reluctant to manipulate the media as callously as our opponents. But our continued reluctance to question the disinformation that emanates from biased reporters is not helping our cause any more than our propensity to self-assign blame for barbarous acts committed against us.