Air War Stayed “Secret”

by Lila Rajiva

"Airpower remains the single greatest asymmetrical advantage the United States has over its foes." Exactly. To a government intent on creating the collective illusion of the Iraq war as a defensive campaign against a belligerent dictator, what would be likely to undermine that illusion than the image of a bully boy in the skies pounding a rag tag, almost-disarmed enemy? That explains the official white out of the air war and the silence of the official media, but not the stunning indifference of the public. Bush lied us into war? It's a nice slogan but rather self-deceiving. It seems more honest to say that most people didn't resist too much when they were being tutored in official mythology and that some even turned out to be rather apt pupils. The media might have kept the story of the pre-war war off the screen but anyone with his wits about him could have put together the story from those telltale tidbits that popped up from time to time from an otherwise comatose press...

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