Doud and the rest of the American chickens know the effect internationally of presidential pictures with caskets. They want the war to fail; they want America weakened, so that an international, pagan, Anti-Christian government can take charge. It won't happen, though, because Babylon is fallen.

The New Republic Online: No Show: "'That is the enemy's entire war objective: to inflict pain. And that is why it would be a strategic error to amplify and broadcast that pain by making great public shows of sorrow presided over by the President himself. In the midst of an ongoing war, a guerrilla war, a war that will be won and lost as a contest of wills, the Commander in Chief--despite what he feels in his heart--must not permit himself to show that he bleeds. "