John Rendon – “Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short”
July 17th, 02006 by Stewart Brand
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John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, is a senior communications consultant to the White Houses and Departments of Defense. His subject in this talk is how to replace tactical, reactive response to terror with long-term strategic initative.
I think that people were expecting a silver-tongued devil, an accomplished spin-meister, arrogant but charming, who would dance them into some new nuanced state of understanding.
What they got instead from John Rendon was an earnest, soft-spoken message of such directness and scope that it apparently came across to some in the audience as dissembling…
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Posted on September 5th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
rendon’s a fool.
Posted on September 19th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
rendon is far worse than a fool.
Posted on April 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
“sk8penguin23″ and “scratchmark” are the American counterparts of Islamic fundamentalists—incapable of rational thought. Rendon is right.
Posted on June 16th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
How do you access the audio?!