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Post #125,379
by deSitter
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11/12/03 3:25:57 PM
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New Re: I accept the compromise...
I've heard some of the officer corps mouth the same jingoism we hear from the Administration and its proxies. That does not please me at all. I'm with you on the fighting Joe - but in general, the Pentagon has been as much to blame for this mess as the CAIC (chief AWOLer in charge) and his chickenhawks.

Therefore, some of the blame rightly falls on the military itself, for allowing itself to be abused.

-drl
Post #125,520
by jbrabeck
11/13/03 2:24:08 PM
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New Agree
Company grade (Lt and Cpt) officers and below are the "grunts". Once an officer hits field grade (Maj, LTC, Col) he must start to learn "politics". Once they get that star (Generals) it's a political game.
"All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever."
1 Peter 1:24-25
Post #125,521
by deSitter
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11/13/03 2:43:07 PM
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New Re: Agree
I had a good drinking buddy in Atlanta who was a retired Army lt. col. active in Vietnam. Man, he had stories...He was on the last level where is was remotely possible to take of of troops in the field (battalion level).
-drl
     Some statistics in a graphical form.... - (dmcarls) - (11) - Nov. 11, 2003, 02:21:49 PM EST
         Very sobering. - (pwhysall) - Nov. 11, 2003, 03:19:07 PM EST
         Small fraction of WTC attack. And chump change as wars go. - (marlowe) - (9) - Nov. 12, 2003, 09:43:33 AM EST
             Do you even know what 400 people looks like? - (pwhysall) - (8) - Nov. 12, 2003, 01:23:22 PM EST
                 Nit. - (mmoffitt) - (6) - Nov. 12, 2003, 02:27:57 PM EST
                     Nit Nit.. - (jbrabeck) - (5) - Nov. 12, 2003, 02:36:22 PM EST
                         Nit.Nit.Nit. - (mmoffitt) - (4) - Nov. 12, 2003, 02:44:13 PM EST
                             I accept the compromise... - (jbrabeck) - (3) - Nov. 12, 2003, 02:56:12 PM EST
                                 Re: I accept the compromise... - (deSitter) - (2) - Nov. 12, 2003, 03:25:57 PM EST
                                     Agree - (jbrabeck) - (1) - Nov. 13, 2003, 02:24:08 PM EST
                                         Re: Agree - (deSitter) - Nov. 13, 2003, 02:43:07 PM EST
                 I know what more than 2800 people look like. - (marlowe) - Nov. 18, 2003, 11:39:14 AM EST

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