Stickball is right....
You'll see all the time how PR reports say "sales are up 25% this month" and they compare a 5 week month to a 4 week month. But the average weekly sales would be the same.
Yes that is misleading and borderline dishonest, but that is how PR works.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
