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.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: On enemy propaganda, Pentagon tells it like it is

We do not fully understand Al Qaeda and its relationship to supportive communities in the Islamic world, and so are not yet able to develop an effective strategy for countering its propaganda in those communities, let alone for winning the information campaign in the war against terrorism.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Waging the ��War of Ideas��

America's elections augured potentially positive changes in the superpower's strategy, while allies such as Iran, Syria and Hizbullah were busy raising the propaganda ante over Gaza's suffering, pressing pro-Western Arabs to soften their stand against the Islamists.

ECONOMIST: Gaza and Hamas