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**astralis** · 07-20-2007, 12:15 PM

bluesman,

i don't see the president doing such a great job communicating, either. selling the US public on the war effort isn't the job of the media. it is the job of the executive branch. he is supposed to be the war president; so where are the fireside chats?

and while the capture of this SOB is certainly a very important tactical success, i fail to see how it is strategic. not even zarqawi's death was strategic in nature.

07-20-2007, 12:15 PM	#10 (permalink)
astralis *Foreign Service* Moderator Lei Feng Protege Join Date: 08-23-05 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,232 Country:	bluesman, i don't see the president doing such a great job communicating, either. selling the US public on the war effort isn't the job of the media. it is the job of the executive branch. he is supposed to be the war president; so where are the fireside chats? and while the capture of this SOB is certainly a very important tactical success, i fail to see how it is strategic. not even zarqawi's death was strategic in nature. __________________ Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations