I'm sceptical about politicians of any party making 2-3 day visits to operations zones. What do they really learn from such a short visit? Can't they get the same information from the same people via video conferencing?
And if their quick fly-in fly-out visit is because they want to get a "real" feel and a "real" experience of what the situation is "really" like shouldn't they be staying weeks not days.
Seems like political PR to me.
In fact seems like an abuse of the military by elected officials. Not too surprised then when signals (not words) are used to express true feelings.
Last edited by Padre; January 21st, 2007 at 08:15.
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