NP - Afghanistan's Invincibility: Piercing the Myths

[barbara100 at jps.net]

How could anybody not like your "tone"?  It's better than Bill Maher's.



----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: NP - Afghanistan's Invincibility: Piercing the Myths


> Tough time to be a spinmeister trying to sell this war!  It may be too
hard
> to stomach if we're only killing starving refugees, kids, old folks, so
> play up the angle of how tough the Afghan fighters are...but not too much,
> don't want people to think we might be getting into something we can't
> handle.  Yes this marketing campaign will be interesting to watch.  I read
> in the October 8 issue of Time magazine that Karen Hughes and Karl Rove
are
> working on that very problem:  how to sell the war to a U.S. public with a
> famously short attention span.  On Page Two.