{"id":1166,"date":"2005-11-09T00:53:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2005-11-09T00:54:51","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:54:51","slug":"a-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"A Must-Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simply that, a must-read essay<\/a>, courtesy Stephen Green, the VodkaPundit<\/a>. If you want to know why I have started an “Our” Media<\/a> category (which still needs older entries added) here at Target Centermass, Mr. Green sums it up better than I could:<\/p>\n

So what does matter? What is the postmodern arm of decision?<\/p>\n

Previously, I wrote that in order to win the Terror War, we must “prove the enemy ideology to be ineffective,” just as we did in the Cold War. In that conflict, we did so in three ways: by fighting where we had to while maintaining our freedoms, but most importantly by out-growing the Communist economies. I argued that similar methods would win the Terror War. We’d have to fight, we’d have to maintain our freedoms, but the primary key to victory in the Current Mess is taking the initiative.<\/p>\n

What I didn’t see then – but what I do see today – is what “taking the initiative” really means.<\/p>\n

It means, fighting a media war. It means, turning the enemy’s one great strength into our own. Broadcast words, sounds, and images are the arm of decision in today’s world.<\/p>\n

And if that assessment is correct, then we’re losing this war and badly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go. Read it. Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simply that, a must-read essay, courtesy Stephen Green, the VodkaPundit. If you want to know why I have started an “Our” Media category (which still needs older entries added) here at Target Centermass, Mr. Green sums it up better than I could: So what does matter? What is the postmodern arm of decision? Previously, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-media","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}