The article on SWC Blog should be here: http://smallwarsjournal.com/mag/2008...cal-battle.php

The author puts another perspective and yes, from an American viewpoint and someone who being in SF knows what happens on the ground, as distinct from inside the beltway.

It is a fine balance in a democracy between telling the public comfort and agony (a point Ken has made elsewhere months ago, thanks again). In a democracy who should tell us? Who should decide?

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