Nancy Snow

What's so fascinating about all these propaganda efforts in the War on Terror is how reconstituted they appear. The United States has a one-hundred-year history of marrying commerce with politics and tapping public relations to “brand” America abroad. President Woodrow Wilson told the International Congress of Salesmanship to "go out and sell goods that will make the world more comfortable and more happy and convert them to the principles of America." That was in 1916. Is today all that much different? No, not really, but it's more intensified now because we have the technology age to aid the efforts to brand the product America, and we have the unpredictable dark cloud of that catch-all new enemy, terrorism, magnifying our efforts.