White Paper No 7 Draft Vers i o n 22 29 2006 Pa ge 1 PUBLIC DIPLOMACY WHITE Incessant morbid portrayals of an individual movement or nation as a mortal enemy might rally support fo ID: 418356
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Ridicule as a Weapon , White Paper No. 7, Draft Vers i o n 2.2 2/9 / 2006 Pa ge 1 PUBLIC DIPLOMACY WHITE Incessant, morbid portrayals of an individual, movement, or nation as a mortal enemy might rally support for the American side, but they have a shelf-life that gets tired over time. Constant specters of unrelenting dangers risk sowing defeatism and chipping Is there something else the United States and its allies should be doing in their attempts to discredit, undermine and defeat the enemy? This paper argues in the affirmative. It suggests that U.S. strategy includes undermining the political and psychological strengths of adversaries and enemies by employing ridicule as a standard operating tool of national strategy. Ridicule is an under- per of a s p ecial international communicati o n a pplied studi e s p r og ram o f T h e Institute of World Politics, 1521 16 th Stre e t NW, Washington DC 2 0036 USA. ww w. iwp.edu Th