Oh, I know. But there it is. Personally, however, I trust the Colonel’s tactical sense more than I do most FReepers.
Let’s face it. As a segment of the population as a whole, we are extremely well informed and quite intelligent, but we all have our hot button issues.
The Colonel had it hammered into him as a shavetail and later as he rose through the ranks that it is indeed true that “the perfect is the enemy of the good”, that any plan is better than no plan, and that while suicidal charges into the face of machine guns look good on film, they seldom win battles — let alone wars.
West is making his decisions based on what I perceive as a clear understanding of what his ultimate goals are, and from the maxim that while you can’t always get everything you want — and you don’t want to cut off your nose to spite your face by refusing to push the ball three yards down-field when it’s three and five.
I trust the man.
VERY WELL ARTICULATED!