Agreed.
Neither is an Administration hesitant to identify the true face of our enemy liable to maintain support for very long. We need a little less compassion and a lot more thrashing to happen before this World Wide Islamic Jihad against us is defeated.
I think the drop in support we're seeing in current polls is a definite result of a failure to communicate.
I'm sure this "world's greatest poker player - doesn't show his hand" persona is useful in some circumstances, but IMHO the American people need to understand what we are sacrificing for, and we ought to all be asked to sacrifice something.
I understand that we ought to trust our president, but I tend to think he needs to trust us, too, and I don't want to let a GOP president "get away with" something I wouldn't want a Dem president doing.