The taupe colored tie and the dictator jacket

[The Grand Nudger]

one never tells an enemy that you have no plan to deal with him.

On a serious note, it's pretty common strategy to keep the enemy in the dark. A good way to do that is to feign bewilderment and ignorance. Very often, the enemy actually -wants- to believe that you really are that clueless. They want to believe that they are powerful, secure in their authority, and that their forces are such that people have to tackle "the problem" of taking them out. They want to believe the worst about you, and the best about themselves.

It's generally a good idea to encourage an enemies delusions of grandeur. If you say "Those guys?....... oh, fuck em, put the artillery in range last weak - gonna leave a crater on the face of the earth that can be seen from space, lets talk about more pressing difficulties - like our commitment to school lunch reform." - the bad guys might get off their asses and do something productive. They'll have a perception of threat, at the least - even if they don't believe you. Or, if your forces are actually knocking out the assets and comms of the enemy presently when asked, feigning ignorance generates even more of that ever so useful confusion.

You have to keep in mind our governments explicit use of "public media" to seed disinformation in the command structure of it's targets. These little Q&A's are strategic gold that the US has a history of mining - especially in that region in the world, of late.

Johnnie is actually farther out in space than myself, though he wisely never gives a date to anything.

So he has a better long game? You know, he probably was at a point once where he gave dates, but learned that this was a detriment to his line - not a benefit, in the long run.

Don't worry, you'll get there. Maybe then people will be watching -you- on youtube and linking it to their fora? I say reach for that ring buddy!