Sun Tzu wrote 2,500 years ago that war is of vital interest to the state, and a matter of life and death. Colonel Paul Linebarger’s Psychological Warfare says the same of his science: “Yet success, though incalculable, can be overwhelming; and failure, though undetectable, can be mortal.” Most of the West does not understand this science, and Israel is particularly deficient in its study. Any attack on Iran’s nuclear program will, in the absence of preparatory psychological warfare, unite the Iranian people against the attacker. Germans who had no use for Hitler and Nazism nonetheless fought harder when Allied troops entered Germany itself, and Russians who feared or despised Stalin took up arms against German invaders. Iran’s government is obviously relying on its people to react similarly to any Western effort to derail Iran’s nuclear program, and may in fact want to provoke an attack to divert the minds of Iranians from their government’s numerous shortcomings. This is why a PsyWar campaign must precede an attack on Iran, and it may in fact make such an attack unnecessary.(Read more…) IMRA did a post on a major report published by MEMRI in Dec 2011 on: The Arab Spring in Jordan: Regime Concerned about Increasing Protests, Calls to Overthrow It By: H.Varulkar* Introduction Since January 2011, Jordan has seen a growing wave of protests and calls for reform by citizens, who have steadily increased the level of their demands. The protests are led by the Islamist movement, which dominates the political opposition, and by the popular protest movement, which encompasses numerous pro-reform organizations established in the recent months. Also prominent in the protest movement are organizations representing Jordan’stribal population, which for decades was considered the powerbase of the Hashemite regime. In recent years, this population has developed a growing sense of resentment and discrimination as a result of the economic policy advanced by the Jordanian king.[1] This has triggered the emergence of several pro-reform organizations representing the tribes. Political oppositionists have also intensified their criticism against the regime; prominent among them is Islamist oppositionist Laith Shbailat, as well as the former prime minister and chief of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), Ahmad ‘Obeidat, who has recently emerged as a leading oppositionist and established the National Front for Reform. These protesters include the MB and the Bedouin tribes. They do not include the Palestinians that comprise over 75% of the population. The Palestinians under Mudar Zahran are biding their time. They do not support the MB, the tribes or the King. By David Coughlin, AMERICAM THINKER Barack Obama is a lame-duck president already, but he probably doesn’t realize it since he is surrounded by leftist zealots who insulate him from any contrary opinions and shielded by the partisan mainstream media. Obama’s popularity began falling right after his election, and the percentage disapproving has exceeded those approving steadily since 2009. I briefly served as a volunteer speechwriter on the McCain-Palin campaign in 2008. I was never part of the inner circle, and even if I had “dirt” to dish, I wouldn’t dare violate the confidentiality agreement I signed – even though that hasn’t stopped some former McCain campaign aides from publicly blaming Gov. Sarah Palin for everything that went wrong. (Read more…) Hollywood refrused to allow Sacha Baran Cohen to attend the Oscars in character. Why, because the character of choice is the one in his soon to be released movie, Dictator. Here is his response. It reminds of this fantastic Sid Ceasar sketch. Unfortunately the end of the sketch has been cut off. What is missing is that Sid Ceasar, the German General, was getting dressed for his morning stint as the hotel doorman.
Psychological Warfare Must Precede Strike on Iran
Jordanian politics
Obama Has Already Lost
Palin carried the day
Dictators and Generals
by Bill Levinson
Originally published in The American Thinkers
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