For starters, he said, Washington does a lousy job of spinning the news abroad.
“Public relations was invented in the United States, yet we are miserable at communicating to the rest of the world what we are about,” he said. “It is just embarrassing that al-Qaida is better at disseminating its message on the Internet than America.”
Gates begins to echo the Rumsfeld meme of propaganda, media war, and information control.
Gates spoke at Kansas State University yesterday, in the Landon lecture series. He tried to blame the failures of the US's foreign policy on the State Department and other "civilian" outfits.
Isn't it interesting that there's a CIA guy running DoD and a DoD guy running CIA?
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