thunder wrote:
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:48:11 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


Shades of Lyndon Johnson. He didn't want to listen to his military
commanders either.

*If* this article it to be believed, those military commanders should be
fired, at the very least.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45640


The trouble with midlevel to senior military personnel is that they
comprise a special interest group, and that interest is in keeping
themselves and their buddies in uniform, and the apparatus well-oiled. I
hear them on TV from time to time talking about how much they hate war,
but I don't believe them. War swells the ranks, empties billets, and
creates all sorts of promotional opportunities.