The press has been all over the Obama administration for its "propaganda" for its lead-up to the planned senseless US strikes against the Syria.
But in fact the Obama administration can't seem to follow the most elementary rule of propaganda -- bad or good -- in convincing Americans and the world why Cruise missiles will solve ethnic problems in a distant part of the world (from an American perspective) at a time when so many Americans can't find a decent job.
The essential prop-rule:
--Have one simplistic, "clear" message and repeat it all over again. Or, as George W. Bush put, "catapult the propaganda."
The Obama team is unable -- for political, possibly moral, reasons? -- to do that.
Some, including this blogger, would say, "thank God." At least the message-confusion of this administration is made "transparent." Transparent confusion ...
Could that be American foreign "policy" in our new century?
But -- most important -- at the cost of American lives?
Just askin'.