Tactics, Strategy, Politics
by Tom Hayden
Tuesday, 1 Apr 2003

"As a veteran of many campaigns, I can tell you that incumbent politicians are impacted, whether they admit it or not, by credible grassroots organizers going door to door in their districts telling voters that they stink (more appropriate terminology to be inserted here)."

With the mainstream media already questioning the Administration's false optimism, it's hard to make predictions as to where this crisis is going. A hollow victory seems likely ? turning iraq into our own gaza strip and west bank. Who knows? we nonetheless need a strategy into which our tactics blend, so these are notes intended to provoke discussion. . . .

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