Advice From An Old Foe

In The WSJ yesterday there was an article written by an ex-KJB hand from Romania (actually it's Lieutenant General Pacepa, the highest ranking intelligence official to defect from the Eastern bloc) with some insight about today's propaganda against the U.S.. He sees a redux of old Soviet methods (some of which worked well) being used to build anti-American support today by attacking our leaders. Here is an excerpt:

Unfortunately, partisans today have taken a page from the old Soviet playbook. At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, for example, Bush critics continued our mud-slinging at America's commander in chief. One speaker, Martin O'Malley, now governor of Maryland, had earlier in the summer stated he was more worried about the actions of the Bush administration than about al Qaeda. On another occasion, retired four-star general Wesley Clark gave Michael Moore a platform to denounce the American commander in chief as a "deserter." And visitors to the national chairman of the Democratic Party had to step across a doormat depicting the American president surrounded by the words, "Give Bush the Boot."

You can read the rest of it by clicking here.