Pentagon Mulls Wider PSYOP use

The Pentagon is look at expanding its tactical deception to influence broader support in other parts of the world...the only draw back is it could be picked up by news agencys as "real" news instead.

Pentagon and military officials directly involved in the debate say that such a secret propaganda program, for example, could include planting news stories in the foreign press or creating false documents and Web sites translated into Arabic as an effort to discredit and undermine the influence of mosques and religious schools that preach anti-American principles.---New York Times, By Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt---

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How do we know the information we recieve isn't already tainted?

interest to say the least, the arabs will have a hellavu time filtering out the information if this is done right from a strategic standpoint superb! from our standpoint however this is a major blow to our effort as moderators of ignorance and the fight for truthful and worthwhile information. makes you wonder how many radical muslim actually depend on the internet for their information...?

It just underlines the fact that a nation will stop at nothing to undermine an enemy - they're already doing it anyway. I'm sure the people at war are already used to it. But if they believe they're right nothing will put them off.

They're "extremists" the only question is whether they are extremely wrong as your government would have you believe, or whether in fact, they are extremely right??

At the end of the day the biggest victims of propaganda are those of us in the west, who believe everything that our governments spoon feed to us. They use propaganda to justify what they're doing with our taxes and to justify to us why so many people must die in the name of democracy. Propaganda is a weapon that the governments use against all of us.