The Enemy of My Enemy

It is by now a well known fact that Islamic terrorist and insurgent groups are extremely media savvy, producing and packaging their own propaganda, staging false media events, and timing both individual attacks and campaigns in an attempt to influence public opinion so that they might win wars through media manipulation that they are far too weak to win militarily.

I don't doubt that the media knows that attacks are purposefully increased leading up to major events such as national elections in nations allied against terrorists, and yet, that fact rarely, if ever, receives any acknowledgement.

Is it too much to ask for professional media oranizations to acknowledge that the news they report is part of a carefully considered and purposefully shaped terrorist campaign targeted for media consumption, or have we come to a point where we should simply assume that they are willing pawns, conspiring with terrorists toward a common goal?

Does it sound far-fetched that the enemies of our way of life might conspire with those in our own ranks to attempt to defeat what they consider a common adversary?

It shouldn't.

It has happened before, and most assuredly is happening again.