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Bush to Afghanistan; Rice and Hughes to various locales; Rumsfeld and Cheney, well, pretty much any time they show up in public it's a surprise.
And yet, the popular media treat these unscheduled flybys as somehow akin to a serious conducting of foreign policy. How much substantive discussion happens during these layover diplomatic stops? Meet, greet, shake a few hands, pose for a few photos, and zip! gone again.
But the popular media treat these "meetings" as if foreign policy is actually being enacted, and it's not. Diplomacy requires a little more than a photo op. But do we get that discussion from the fawning media? We do not. They're happy to take pictures, run a few moments of video and pretend that Chimpy did something real with his dash through Afghanistan.
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