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Elsewhere Kurtz comments, "It was a carefully honed media strategy--alternately seducing, misleading, and sometimes intimidating the press--that maintained [Clinton's] aura of success."
We have found no evidence that such a long-term political-military approach for using Special Operations Forces in the region was proposed to or analyzed by the Small Group, even though such capability had been honed for at least a decade within the Defense Department.
While in college, they honed their skills playing regular volleyball--not a sport that pays its own way on campus.
That may be good strategy for an economy losing manufacturing jobs (a strategy honed for decades by New Orleans), but that's a fickle crowd to keep happy.
The kind of SLATE I was coming to enjoy reading was one that would rip the Wall Street Journal apart using facts, ideas, and finely honed reasoning.