The Pentagon admits the us lags behind al Qaeda in media campaigns

On February 19th news, U.S. Secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld Friday (February 17th) said that the United States access to information risk behind Al Qaeda in the era of digital media (al-Qaeda) and other enemies. The United States must update its old-fashioned methods.

Rumsfeld told the US Council on foreign relations that modernization is important to win the hearts of Muslims around the world, Reuters reported. Now, Al Qaeda has instilled a negative image of the west to the global Muslim population. Weapons of war today include email, blackberry, instant messaging, digital cameras, and Internet blogs.

Rumsfeld said that our enemies have been very well adapted to fight the war in today's media age. However, our country is not suitable. He said that the U.S. government is still in the auction site eBay's field is still like the old "cheap small grocery store".

Rumsfeld said the U.S. military's public relations officials must learn to predict the news and make a faster response to the news. A good public relations officer should be promoted. Military information officers are currently working eight hours a day, working at least five days to six days a week, and they face challenges every day for up to twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Rumsfeld said that this lack of efficiency is very dangerous.

, an opposition senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy (Ted Kennedy) immediately criticized the statement. He said in a statement, Rumsfeld's speech is not the point. Obviously, we need to improve our communications in the public sphere of democracy and the information age. However, the United States has not taken any measures to Al Qaeda, so that the United States is more dangerous than the situation in the war in iraq. The measures taken by the United States are not effective. Our biggest failure is policy.

Rumsfeld said that the media attention to the U.S. military in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison abuse incidents far more than the discovery of a large tomb of Sadam.

According to not under the control of the state of Arabia satellite TV and other media, Rumsfeld said, although the molecular Al Qaeda and extremism has used this forum for many years, but we, the U.S. government has just begun to take action and they compete for the audience.