Controlling the Wrong Damage

I know you've seen them. They're all over the place. Yes, the photos of Iraqi prisoners being tortured, electrocuted, piled naked on top of each other, and so on, in front of smiling soldiers. And if you didn't know about the pictures before, maybe the president, the army, and the British Ministry of Defense's rabid buck-passing tipped you off. The problem with their campaign for public opinion is that it's happening in the wrong country.
Yes, that's right, what people here think doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because we know that wasn't our friends piled up on the floor with bags over their heads. It doesn't matter because the ultimate outcome in Iraq doesn't depend on our opinions anymore. We're past that point.

The success of our mission in Iraq depends, more than anything, on the goodwill of the Iraqi people. They're the ones you need to be pandering to. And if you're as effective at shaping public opinion in Iraq as you are here, we need to find someone else.

Maybe someone who's a "uniter, not a divider."

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