CounterPunch/Dissident Voice
by Ben Schreiner
by Ben Schreiner
From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.- Andrew Card, White House Chief of Staff, 2002
The best time to introduce a new product, as Card well understood, comes just after Labor Day. And when it comes to a new "product" to be marketed to the American public, there's never been anything quite like a new war -- that most prolific of American exports.