One of Bush's most egregious political errors was to treat the WOT like it is a big bloody secret. It's cost him terribly in public support. We need names, pictures, and maps to get a sense of what's going on, to know whom to cheer and whom to jeer. We need a President to display his apparent command of the situation and the confidence in the people to take the setbacks as part of the deal. A monthly update would have been enough.
Whatever it might have cost us in intelligence betrayed would have been more than offset by the improvement in public support for the war, demoralizing to our enemies.
Spot on..