Most Americans image of any middle eastern country is a bunch of people in “pajamas” herding goats and holding AK-47s. Yet they also have secret caves where they develop nuclear weapons. This is the propaganda machine at work. The enemy is both backwards and uncivilized yet they someone have the means to make weapons of mass destruction. They think of them as inbred barbarians who happened to also have the world’s most destructive weapons.
This is meant to terrify the population. To make them imagine some uncontrollable, belligerent force of uneducated masses that could up and destroy the world if they wanted to.
Most Americans image of any middle eastern country is a bunch of people in “pajamas” herding goats and holding AK-47s. Yet they also have secret caves where they develop nuclear weapons. This is the propaganda machine at work. The enemy is both backwards and uncivilized yet they someone have the means to make weapons of mass destruction. They think of them as inbred barbarians who happened to also have the world’s most destructive weapons.
This is meant to terrify the population. To make them imagine some uncontrollable, belligerent force of uneducated masses that could up and destroy the world if they wanted to.