Meanwhile instruments of enemypropaganda, like al-Jazeera and hostile state-owned media are pumping out anti-American indoctrination in myriad languages around the world and around the clock.
Founded in 2004 to counter enemypropaganda and provide a good face for the US and its causes, Al Hurra has worked hard to build credibility as an objective and reliable news source.
Nor will reformist candidates risk being shown on the BBC's recently launched and widely praised Persian satellite-television service, since security officials have declared that people co-operating with such enemypropaganda could be liable for prosecution.
It's about time the administration took on the people who are trying to do to Iraq what they did to South Vietnam: run their mouths without a care about how they might play into the enemy's propaganda strategy.
But this I believe passionately: we will not win until we shake ourselves free of the wretched capitulation to the propaganda of the enemy, that somehow we are the ones responsible.
It is true that during WWII the BBC had broadcast coded messages to British secret agents behind enemy lines, and that some journalists had worked with MI6 in producing propaganda.
Psychological Operations (PSYOPS): The use of communications (such as propaganda) and actions intended to mislead to influence the perceptions, motives, and emotions of the enemy.