Negative U.S. media linked to increased insurgent attacks

[Big Don]

UPI/Washington Times article
Excerpt:
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a measurable "emboldenment effect" on insurgents there.

Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about the war, or of polling about public opinion on the conflict, are followed by a small but quantifiable increases in the number of attacks on civilians and U.S. forces in Iraq, according to a study by Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government. [/FONT]

 

[Big Don]

Doesn't help with morale either...

 

[RandomPhantom700]

Ah right, so an anti-war opinion is responsible for further terrorist attacks. Not the terrorists themselves, not the fact that we have a huge military occupation of a Midle Eastern country, but an anti-war domestic opinion is responsible, huh? Just like voting John Kerry in 2004 would have been a victory for the Bad Guys? Wonder if we're going to hear that line in the 2008 election from the McCain camp.

Seriously, demonizing opposing views, especially saying "well it's encouraging the terrorists out there", is a pretty weak response.

 

[Andy Moynihan]

We needed researchers from Harvard to tell us THIS?