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YouTube - seinfeld dissing blackberry and iphones. Ex-Air Force Chief: Recruit Bloggers to Wage Afghan Info War. Every time an American bomb kills civilians in Afghanistan, the U.S. loses another battle in the information war to the Taliban.

And despite more accurate weapons, more careful targeting, and speedier responses to the press, the Pentagon can’t seem to figure out how to stop the setbacks in this decisive struggle for influence. A former top military official believes he may have the answer, however: let troops blog in combat, so they can ward off the accusations of atrocities as they fight. The latest tangle over civilian casualties came last week, when American airstrikes killed dozens of innocents, during a battle in western Afghanistan.

Locals said a hundred or more civilians might have died in the crossfire. In response, the U.S. military launched an investigation.