Propaganda Wars

Well Rumsfeld brought up a failure of the administration today. Apperently, we lag in a propaganda war with al Qaeda. We need to modernize, and build this up.

The Pentagon chief said today's weapons of war included e-mail, Blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras and Web logs, or blogs.

"Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but ... our country has not adapted," Rumsfeld said.

But Ted Kennedy highlighted the actual problem.

"Clearly, we need to improve our public diplomacy and information age communication in the Muslim world," Kennedy said in a statement. "But nothing has done more to encourage increased Al Qaeda recruitment and made America less safe than the war in Iraq and the incompetent way it's been managed. Our greatest failure is our policy."

I think I agree more with Ted. Now put something forward so we actually can get out and clean up our image a little in the process. The first step to recovery is admitting there is a problem.