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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
How is he a "pretty strong propaganda piece" exactly?
I know I know, they trot him out in front the camera to say America sucks and all the rest of it, but is there actually a person out there who listens to this and thinks "yeah, this guy is really onto something"? Propaganda is supposed to influence people. This kind of charade doesn't influence anyone.
Americans know what is going on when they see this -- they know he's either being told to do this with a gun to his head, or he's a moron. They don't think "hey, this soldier says Allah is great and we are wrong so maybe I'm turned around on the whole matter".
On the other side, people don't become terrorists or militants because some captured soldier says something against America.
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Its a propaganda piece that would certainly act negatively back home in middle armerica. But more importantly its a great propaganda piece for the various different factions of the Taliban itself and other extreme groups especially after they've had what sounds like a pretty tough month both in Afghanistan and Pakistan in terms of casualites.
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