I know it's a cliche now but my god, this is why Trump won. pic.twitter.com/xT8co3YZu1— Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) April 24, 2017
New 2020 names:
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) May 1, 2017
- national donors prodding GARCETTI
- MOULTON not ruling it out in private
- and LANDRIEU! https://t.co/aEAUaXtvHC
On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W. Bush as he advocated the charge for war against Iraq. This carefully staged performance, writes Susan Brewer, was the culmination of a long tradition of sophisticated wartime propaganda in America.
In Why America Fights, Brewer offers a fascinating history of how successive presidents have conducted what Donald Rumsfeld calls "perception management," from McKinley's war in the Philippines to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her intriguing account ranges from analyses of wartime messages to descriptions of the actual operations, from the dissemination of patriotic ads and posters to the management of newspaper, radio, and TV media. When Woodrow Wilson carried the nation into World War I, he created the Committee on Public Information, led by George Creel, who called his job "the world's greatest adventure in advertising." In World War II, Roosevelt's Office of War Information avowed a "strategy of truth," though government propaganda still depicted Japanese soldiers as buck-toothed savages. After examining the ultimately failed struggle to cast the Vietnam War in a favorable light, Brewer shows how the Bush White House drew explicit lessons from that history as it engaged in an unprecedented effort to sell a preemptive war in Iraq. Yet the thrust of its message was not much different from McKinley's pronouncements about America's civilizing mission.
Impressively researched and argued, filled with surprising details, Why America Fights shows how presidents have consistently drummed up support for foreign wars by appealing to what Americans want to believe about themselves.
In the Horrorscape of Aleppo. https://t.co/ifTryoXPRY via @nybooks— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) May 2, 2017
Over six years of war, millions of Syrians have suffered; beyond the almost 500,000 killed, many more have been paralyzed, disfigured, blinded, traumatized, and uprooted from their homes and communities. As of January, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had registered nearly five million Syrian refugees, in addition to the six million displaced within the country. The demolished neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo make this brutally clear. They contained more than half of Aleppo’s population, until opposition fighters began seizing the area in 2012. Although measures of population movement are guesses at best, international aid agencies report that at least 50,000 eastern Aleppines fled to the western part of the city to avoid shelling by the regime or chaotic jihadist rule. Thousands more made their way to the government-controlled, war-free coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, to Lebanon, or to Turkey, which offered visa-free entry, work permits, and, for many months in 2015, a blind eye to any who dared the perilous sea route to Europe.Almost unbelievable, in this day and age.
In December 2016 the Syrian army, with Russian support, conquered the last insurgent strongholds in Aleppo’s east. UNHCR officials believe that about 36,000 people, rebels and their families, departed by bus under Russian protection for the opposition redoubt in Idlib province. What they left behind conjures memories of Dresden, Coventry, and Tokyo in the aftermath of World War II. The multiple forms of destruction testify to the ingenuity of the world’s arms factories. Bombs have transformed Aleppo into an Escher-like vision of six-foot-thick concrete slabs twisted into braids; five-story apartment buildings compressed into piles ten feet high; and collapsed façades of entire streets exposing rooms with ceiling fans eerily intact and revolving in the wind.
This is the horrorscape to which many residents are returning, only to find themselves still homeless. They camp in makeshift tents beside the remains of their homes, sticking close by to deter thieves from seizing unclaimed land at a time when many deeds have been lost or destroyed. Some sleep inside buildings that are exposed to the elements and subject to collapse at any moment. Children die when balconies crumble or they find shiny objects that turn out to be unexploded bombs...
For Trump supporters, the real outrage is the left's outrage over Comey's firing https://t.co/fOI6ZSUEC5— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 11, 2017
Op-Ed Contributor: Erick Erickson: The Fantasy of Impeachment. https://t.co/2gnpZmMT8x— NYT (@NYT) May 13, 2017
WH source with direct knowledge just told me @washingtonpost didn't talk to ANY U.S. official at mtg w/ Lavrov. "It's Fake News"— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 15, 2017
GOOD GOD, MAN #MondayMorning https://t.co/jBDJxGCVeS
— IDLYITW (@IDLYITW) May 15, 2017
As my wife says to me often, "this is why women live longer than men." https://t.co/VGF6F2qFoU
— Clay Routledge (@clayroutledge) May 1, 2017
Nope nope nope... 😳😳😳
— SPORTbible (@sportbible) March 8, 2017
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This hat is the most 2017 thing I have yet seen. #Berkeley pic.twitter.com/OVembg6Bma
— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) April 27, 2017
A change in our weather pattern after today.Trending cooler... especially next week. Rain chance late Thu & Fri #GMW pic.twitter.com/mEnsWp0duF
— Veronica Johnson (@VJohnsonABC7) May 2, 2017
