October 24, 2003
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War of Ideas
Click on the above picture for
my Aug. 17, 2003, entry,
Rumsfeld Suggests New Agency
for ‘War of Ideas’
Friday, October 24, 2003 12:50 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview published on Friday that the United States needs to sell its message more effectively and that a new agency would help fight a “war of ideas” against international terrorism.
“We are in a war of ideas, as well as a global war on terror. And the ideas are important and they need to be marshaled, and they need to be communicated in ways that are persuasive to the listeners,” Rumsfeld said in a wide-ranging interview with The Washington Times.
“The overwhelming majority of the people of all religions don’t believe in terrorism. They don’t believe in running around killing innocent men, women and children. And we need more people standing up and saying that in the world, not just us,” Rumsfeld was quoted as saying.
For the details of a rather famous religious text that shows Rumsfeld to be lying, see my note of July 31, 1997,
(The detail that makes Rumsfeld’s statement a lie is the word “all,” which is contradicted by the religion of Orthodox Judaism. Another detail of interest is the word “Joshua” in the Vacation Bible School entry. Recall that this was the real name of the Jew now known as Jesus, and that many of his followers may have hoped he would star in a bloody sequel to the Book of Joshua. Hence the “thorny crown” phrase in the West Wing link above.)
