Source: The Hill
by Jos Joseph
“Any historian will tell you that propaganda is part of warfare. One can see plenty of cartoons from World War II that made the Japanese look subhuman including Superman shorts. As a kid, I remember t-shirt makers using ‘The Simpsons’ to make light of Desert Storm and Saddam Hussein. As a young man after 9/11 I was convinced that the perpetrators were simpletons who lived in caves. Whether we have won the war, lost it, or finagled our way out of losing it, the same themes emerged. Our enemy is subhuman and brutal might is the way to beat them. Except they aren’t and it isn’t. And Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is playing into the same trap with potentially even worse consequences.” (03/16/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5785246-hegseth-iran-war-strategy/