Be vewwy vewwy careful...

[chickenfeet]

via springheel_jack

Analogies can be very powerful but require selecting with a bit more care than this. Whose tanks are those in the streets?

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[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

They try so hard.

The paraphrase from Tony Snow saying "FDR persisted in the Battle of the Bulge even though most Americans wanted the troops home" was kind of funny, too.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this. How does George Bush get such good PR? Does he really have someone to write his speeches?!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Well judging by the savvy of his "Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy" anything is possible.

Being serious for a moment, I think a lot of the trouble is that the professionals at State who know stuff like where Yurp is and what happened in Hungary in 1956 have been marginalised in favour of a bunch of ideological hacks and military types. It's not the first time it's happened in US foreign policy. The same thing happened in the 1920s and 30s which isn't very reassuring.