New Face, Same War by Harold Meyerson

NEW FACE, SAME WAR - HAROLD MEYERSON (WASHINGTON POST, SEPTEMBER 13): The whole point of the Petraeus PR offensive, after all, is to decouple the war from the president. If it's the president's war, no one will vote to keep it going. The Petraeusization of the sales pitch is necessary precisely because the war itself isn't changing.
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