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We read about the loses in the news, because people are killed and injured. We hear about the wins too. The whole Bin Laden raid was a massive publicity coup
by phobosanomaly 6y ago
We read about the loses in the news, because people are killed and injured.
We hear about the wins too.
The whole Bin Laden raid was a massive publicity coup for the Obama administration. It was shouted from the rooftops.
If a president can point to something in an election year and go "see, see there, I made you people safer," they will.
- craftinator 6y agoI subscribe to this belief as well. Presidents have the power to declassify information at will, and I haven't been alive to see a president that isn't spending lots of time singing their own praises; popularity contests tend to select people of that ilk.