War Made Easy

How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

By: Norman Solomon

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Hardcover | 1 June 2005

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"War Made Easy" cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key "perception management" techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades. This guide to disinformation analyzes American military adventures past and present to reveal striking similarities in the efforts of various administrations to justify, and retain, public support for war. War Made Easy is essential reading. It documents a long series of deliberate misdeeds at the highest levels of power and lays out important guidelines to help readers distinguish a propaganda campaign from actual news reporting. With War Made Easy, every reader can become a savvy media critic and, perhaps, help the nation avoid costly and unnecessary wars.

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* Media critic Solomon (Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You) looks at the pro-war propaganda generated by the U.S. government during military interventions, emphasizing the influence of the media upon public opinion. He begins in 1965, when President Johnson crafted public messages as he sent troops to the Dominican Republic. Solomon claims that LBJ's handling of this invasion established the prototype for a media agenda employed by subsequent presidents to create public approval for their actions. He finds several formulaic messages that help persuade the public to support military intervention. These include portraying America as a fair and noble superpower, whose honest leaders work hard to avoid war, and the enemy leader as an aggressive, Hitler-like violator of human rights who will do much harm unless the United States intervenes. Solomon's timely analysis, which continues through the current war in Iraq, provides the public, analysts, and journalists with useful tips on how to evaluate the prewar messages of any administration, current or historical. Of interest to both public and academic libraries.-Judy Solberg, George Washington Univ. Libs., Washington, DC (Library Journal, July 15, 2005)

"An engaging book that helps explain how the myth-making machine works." (The Texas Observer, July 8, 2005)

"Brutally persuasive...a must-read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come." (Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2005)

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Prologue: Building Agendas for War
America Is a Fair and Noble Superpower
Our Leaders Will Do Everything They Can to Avoid War
Our Leaders Would Never Tell Us Outright Lies
This Guy Is a Modern-Day Hitler
This Is about Human Rights
This Is Not at All about Oil or Corporate Profits
They Are the Aggressors, Not Us
If This War Is Wrong, Congress Will Stop It
If This War Is Wrong, the Media Will Tell Us
Media Coverage Brings War into Our Living Rooms
Opposing the War Means Siding with the Enemy
This Is a Necessary Battle in the War on Terrorism
What the U.S. Government Needs Most Is Better PR
The Pentagon Fights Wars as Humanely as Possible
Our Soldiers Are Heroes, Theirs Are Inhuman
America Needs the Resolve to Kick the "Vietnam Syndrome
Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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