You might think that the American public would begin to rebel against these messy entangling alliances with the
1984-like
demonizing of one new “enemy” after another. Not only have these
endless wars drained trillions of dollars from the U.S. taxpayers, they
have led to the deaths of thousands of U.S. troops and to the tarnishing
of America’s image from the attendant evils of war, including a lengthy
detour into the “dark side” of torture, assassinations and “collateral”
killings of children and other innocents.
But that is where the
history of “perception management” comes in, the need to keep the
American people compliant and confused. In the 1980s, the Reagan
administration was determined to “kick the Vietnam Syndrome,” the
revulsion that many Americans felt for warfare after all those years in
the blood-soaked jungles of Vietnam and all the lies that clumsily
justified the war.
So, the challenge for the U.S. government
became: how to present the actions of “enemies” always in the darkest
light while bathing the behavior of the U.S. “side” in a rosy glow. You
also had to stage this propaganda theater in an ostensibly “free
country” with a supposedly “independent press.”
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