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Thursday, 10 August 2006
Hoo-ray Hez-BOL-ly-wood
Contributed by Bill Faith

Hezbollywood
Bryan Preston

I think we’ve posted on some of this before, but I want to put it in one post in one place.

The fauxtography scandals and speculation point to something lurking behind the scenes of the war in Lebanon and the greater war against radical Islam–the post-modern nature of this war. Post-modern conflict is a war of images over substance, where armies or militias can lose every single battle but still win the war if they have marshalled images and sound more successfully than their opponent. Battles still matter, but the airwaves have become another dimension of the battlespace. It’s more than the sultry voice of Tokyo Rose telling American sailors that they were steaming toward their doom. It tells the homefront that the war is unwinnable, that it may be a product of conspiracies by their own leadership, and that it’s resulting in the mass killing of innocent civilians. Post-modern wars play on our Western sense of fairness and the value we place on human life, and obscures the reality of our enemy and its wholesale targeting of civilians in an effort to break our will.

How does it work? Two vignettes tell the story. First, Anderson Cooper on CNN:

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Today's vent: Fauxtography

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Scott Johnson: Men at work, take 2

Click the image to watch the video at Power Line.

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Michelle: Fauxtography Watch

It Shines For All: 'Fauxtography Watch'

Dan Riehl: Hezbollywood Exposed

Euphoric Reality: Hezbollywood: The Smoking Gun

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 10, 2006 at 09:50 AM in Bill Faith, Hezbollah, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Lebanon, Media Perfidy | Permalink

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