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FACT BASED PROPAGANDA

I know that we do not want more facts.

Facts distort and bend reality.

The truth is contaminated when facts are brought into the picture. Pollution.

But, perhaps you might be amused to know the facts about the 'flypaper' theory.

That is the idea that if we fight the jihadist overseas on someone else's territory we will draw him to that site where he will be zapped and pinned down and destroyed.

While the site you choose may be a scene of mayhem, murder, and mass destruction, the rest of the world will be pristine and safe.

This theory, it would seem, is not supported by the facts.

Not that the facts matter at all. Convoluted rationalization will easily destroy the facts and disperse them to the wind.

But, for a moment, let us enter the land of facts.

Flypaper Watch

Labels: facts, fool's paradise, Iraq