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<\/p>\nDuring WWII, as the Allies were trying to deceive German intelligence about the D-Day invasion location and timing, they used “inflatable military hardware” to make it look to German air-based photo recon as if the Allies were massing in places that the weren’t on the British coast.<\/p>\n
This idea seems to have caught on….\u00a0 here it is employed in Russia, although I’m not sure whom they’re trying to fool these days.<\/p>\n
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In any case, I do find myself wondering if this isn’t a great metaphor for Obama’s economic policy.<\/p>\n
You know:\u00a0 make it look like you’re doing something, as long as people don’t look too close.\u00a0 Talk about stimulus a lot, without actually pointing at something that has been stimulated.<\/p>\n
Other than the tea parties, of course.<\/p>\n
Harry Reid is busy looking for something he can inflate as a successful policy.<\/p>\n
But he only has to look in the mirror to see a balloon that’s about to pop.<\/p>\n