Bonus Friday Photo: Mixed messages

Fri, 10/16/2009 - 5:19pm

Taliban fighters lay down their weapons as they surrender to the government of Herat Province on October 14, 2009 in Western Afghanistan. More than 40 insurgents handed in their weapons in the wake of an ongoing government security operation which killed the Taliban commander in the Gazara district, Ghulam Yahya Akbari days ago.
(Photo by Majid/Getty Images)
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Mission Accomplished!

by Don Bacon on Fri, 10/16/2009 - 7:39pm

Those forty broke the insurgents' back -- time to pack up and leave. I don't care that this story had no attribution anywhere on the web and therefore has no veracity, it clearly shows that our propaganda is better than theirs -- and that's what this is about. Marketing er, Mission Accomplished!

Since I am old enough I

by JPWREL on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 9:32am

Since I am old enough I remember numerous pictures like the above of surrendered arms of the Viet Cong. MACVN in Saigon patted themselves on the back thinking they were scoring a little PR coup with the pubic. Of course the fact that the South Vietnamese Army was riddled from top to bottom with VC was not to be mentioned