The problem is that I think it might actually work.
according to Weekly newspaperAbdul Qahar Balkhi, a senior Taliban official, vowed to be more sober, which includes addressing the issue of climate change:
“We not only hope to be recognized by regional countries,” Barki said, “but the entire world is the legal representative government of the Afghan people. They have obtained the right to self-determination from foreign occupation and have their support and support. Despite our The people are faced with various difficulties, but after a long struggle and great sacrifices, we still support the entire country.”
He believes that such a move is not only beneficial to Afghanistan, but also beneficial to all countries in the world.
Barki added: “We believe that the world has a unique opportunity for harmony to jointly address not only the challenges we face, but also the challenges facing all mankind. These challenges include world security and climate change, and require the joint efforts of all people. And if we exclude or ignore the entire people who have been ravaged by imposed wars in the past 40 years, we will not be able to achieve this goal.”
Let’s set off with Saint Greta’s blessing.
The fact is that the Taliban can easily make these promises because their goal is to bring the Taliban back to the Middle Ages in terms of technology. However, I sincerely doubt what they mean. Senior Taliban officials are as corrupt as many other dictators, and they will deny the people the comfort they enjoy. I hope it will not be less.
However, if we get to the reality, let us be very clear why they want to make this announcement. They know that if they say this, they will win sympathy points from the Western mainstream media. If they do, they know that the media will conduct a PR battle for them with those who know they are a terrible terrorist organization dedicated to conquest and murder.
The power of the mainstream media is that they can start and end wars, but not enough people are aware of this. To control people’s access to news platforms is to control the hearts and minds of viewers.
For example, the consistent condemnation of the war by the mainstream media in the United States has to a large extent led to the rise of anti-war sentiment across the United States. This is so important to the North Vietnamese that Colonel Peiting told the Wall Street Journal in 1995 that this was actually part of their war strategy:
This is essential to our strategy. Our rear support for the war is completely safe, while the US rear is fragile. Our leadership listens to the world news on the radio every day at 9 o’clock in the morning to understand the development of the anti-war movement in the United States. The visits of Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and other ministers to Hanoi convinced us that in the face of a battlefield reversal, we should stick to it. When Jane Fonda wore a red Vietnamese dress and said at a press conference that she was ashamed of America’s actions in the war, we were very happy and she would fight with us.
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These people represent the conscience of the United States. The conscience of the United States is part of its ability to wage war, and we are turning this power to our advantage. The United States failed because of democracy; through dissent and protest, it lost the ability to mobilize its willingness to win.
The Taliban seems to know exactly what button to press to please the media. If the media is happy, then they know that most Americans can be sure that the Taliban is not that bad after all. Sadly, they are not wrong. Leftists and those who pay attention to mainstream media resources, if mainstream media figures are, are completely willing to give terrorists a passport.
For example, when Rolling Stone magazine put the Boston bomber bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover, people developed feelings for him, and the pictures used made it look like a tiger beat.Although it caused a lot of anger, there are too many people on the Internet Express love and sympathy for himIf the media plays a more sympathetic role than it does, you can bet that Tsarnaev will be regarded as a hero by many, even though he killed innocent Bostonians. Fortunately, other media were not stupid enough to play with this at the time.
The Taliban will have an easier time. They haven’t bombed our backyard yet (yet), so their existence has disappeared so far, and people don’t know their daily lives. They can make statements and show their different views through selective videos and pictures. . They will trumpet the importance of climate change during the massacre, and the rights of women when they rape and sell them as sex slaves. Who else knows?
The media may prefer to report it, and the foolish people will follow up as usual.
