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Most Americans had the opportunity to watch the live briefings
of the Persian Gulf war on CNN. Live briefings, to the astute
listener, nearly always show revealing information that
later will be edited out.
A CNN reporter said that he had just returned from Kuwait where
he had traveled with an American patrol. They had observed a
patrol of about thirty Iraqis some distance away and the
Americans were wondering how they would get them to surrender.
A U.S. helicopter suddenly appeared and flew over the Iraqi
patrol, and by the time the helicopter had reached the next sand
dune, they had surrendered.
This is very unusual because these were the same Iraqis who
waged unrelenting Holy War against Iran for eight years.
Later, as the land battle was winding down, a BBC reporter asked
about American plans to get the Iraqi soldiers out of the deep,
well-fortified bunkers built by the Germans.
General Neil started to say, “We bring in the psychological…Read More