Posted on 04/21/2017 9:25:02 PM PDT by pboyington
the perfumed princes rang true....many of them a bunch of preppies with out true leadership skills.
Pretty good piece.
Two perfumed princes(s) pop to mind immediately.
Eric Shinseki and Wesley Clark.
There appear to be parts of the U.S. military that are still in fighting shape. Individual unit successes in Afghanistan would point to that. OTOH, the broader rot of PC culture has taken a toll. The Navy patrol boat surrender to the Iranians would seem to demonstrate aspects of that decay.
Bump....
I don’t see where it’s the war’s fault at all or the handling of the press.
Elections have consequences.
I don’t see where it’s the war’s fault at all or the handling of the press.
Elections have consequences.
“The warrior culture was buried and a new culture was reborn that resembles corporate America, not the US military of yesteryear.”
One look at every single one of our modern Generals confirms this, Mattis included.
I’m at Desert Shield Desert Storm veteran. There is a huge difference between open desert tank warfare and today’s fight. We can win the fight against Islam, but only if we are able to name the enemy and give it no quarter. In many ways today’s fight is much more difficult. As for the changes in the military that is indicative of general social moral decay.
It’s the media’s army, to sell the media’s advertiser’s products.
Good post. Definitely BFL.
nobody beats the U.S. in a conventional war and Saddam tried to fight a conventional war.
Not so much conventional wars going on anymore and ROEs became screwed up for the current wars.
also,
almost as soon as desert storm was over, Cheney & Powell started dismantling the military. It was ripe for a foo-foo take over.
“I don’t see where it’s the war’s fault at all or the handling of the press.”
I agree with that mostly, though I did hear people opine that Desert Storm was pushbutton and war was not like the old days. But mostly it was our decision makers in Government with no backbone.
The vaunted Dick Cheney piled on early to destroy careers after Tailhook. I think his lesbo daughter influenced him.
But number ONE cause, THE cause, was a year later when Bill Clinton was elected and He and Hillary flooded the white house and DOD with radicals on a mission. Anyone remember that comment at the first Clinton inauguration? A Clintonista was offended at a military flyby afterwards.
They were told, “Hey, those planes belong to US now”.
They meant it.
for later
“The warrior culture was buried and a new culture was reborn that resembles corporate America, not the US military of yesteryear.”
One look at every single one of our modern Generals confirms this, Mattis included
General Norman Schwarzkopf saw it coming and retired. He turned down the US Army Chief of Staff position and wanted no part of it. He was one of our last, real fighting generals.
You are correct...Mattis is more of an intellectual and politician than warrior.
You are right on.
I no longer like or respect Dick Cheney or any of the Bush family.
Thanks for your service and sacrifice.
*** “I’m at Desert Shield Desert Storm veteran. There is a huge difference between open desert tank warfare and today’s fight. We can win the fight against Islam, but only if we are able to name the enemy and give it no quarter. In many ways today’s fight is much more difficult. As for the changes in the military that is indicative of general social moral decay ‘ ***
Ditto
Bump
>>Mattis also needs to get rid of the perfumed princes, and the feckless duds who have infested the senior ranks of the armed forces.
I would rather have a sergeant with guts running a division than a two star coward who is more worried about his pension and future job on cable news than the mission and the troops.<<
Needed to be resaid
Colin Powell should have been kicked out of the Army for his involvement in the My Lai massacre and it’s subsequent cover-up in Vietnam. He lied to the Americal Division commanding General as his G-2 when he could easily have gotten on a helicopter and witnessed first hand what went on down there. But he stayed in his air conditioned hooch and wrote one of the most disgusting, lying reports in American military history to that point just glossing over, and essentially writing a fictitious account of what had really gone on there.
Ptuh on Colin Powell! Forever.
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