A comic book will save the middle east
Sunday, 8th July, 2007
An advertisement on the US government’s Federal Business Opportunities website is inviting applications for someone to develop an “original comic book series”.
“In order to achieve long-term peace and stability in the Middle East, the youth need to be reached,” the ad says.
This will be produced by the Madison Avenue ad men of the United States military… The army’s 4th Psychological Operations Group.
This group have recently been deployed during conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan dropping leaflets and cartoons urging surrender.
I am intimately familiar with their… Work?
I find that they provide little else but toilet paper to places that can’t buy Charmin.
A spokesman at Fort Bragg told BBC News website that the initiative for the comic-book project came from the US Department of Defense’s Central Command.
According to the advertisement, the successful applicant will ideally need to have experience of law enforcement and “small unit military operations” – along with a knowledge of Arab language and cultures.
The aim is to involve the ministries of interior of some of Middle East countries.
Ah, yes.. The perfect qualifications for a future Stan Lee… the inclusion of some pet bureaucrats and petty politics rounds out the project nicely.
Only Psy-ops in combination with those geniuses in Central Command… could possibly… under any circumstances.. think that this is a viable idea.
A guess as to the theme of the premiere issue:
The US Military lands in large numbers.. liberating the country without a single civilian casualty.. the entire population then rushes out into the street, throwing flowers, and volunteering to join the good fight.. for truth.. justice.. and the American way.
What other theme could they use?…… It worked so well in real life.
I leave you with a line from the movie Air America:
Rob, I wish you wouldn’t use the words American Intelligence to describe what it is you do.
