“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.
You are right on.
I no longer like or respect Dick Cheney or any of the Bush family.
there were fighter jets flying overhead in honour of the new President, and Silver was initially bothered by this until he thought to himself that the jets were “our planes now.”
I think that was Ron Silver