Posted on 02/15/2014 8:12:43 AM PST by darkwing104
Leaders? Where are they?
For years the late Col. David H. Hackworth warned about self-serving, porcelain princes in leadership positions not acting as leaders but as political hacks seeking only to enhance their own career. Leadership, at best, is granted lip service but rarely practiced in the rarefied air of the military hierarchy. After all, one public faux pas can be a career ender. If Patton were around today he would have been purged at once from the U.S. Army by its porcelain princes.
“Truth is, America’s military has always had plenty of ‘good men.’ What it seems to lack in spades is good leaders.” The Vaughns used Robert Gates’ book, Duty to confirm their suspicions that Mr. Obama sent men and women into a war with a mission he doesn’t believe in. Neither Obama the “leader” nor many who served under him in the Department of Defense, have any desire to support front line troops and they currently have no strategy to win the war.
This nation’s number one public housing, community organizer is indifferent to foreign policy, to paraphrase Bill O’Reilly’s post Obama interview comment; Obama only cares about social justice. Accusing the current administration of not caring about front line warriors is hardly a stretch, given Barack Obama’s only concern about the military has been the plight of homosexuals. He was totally indifferent about the Benghazi murders because the situation existed outside of his “social justice” paradigm.
Rules of Engagement
The champion of social justice and his acolytes created new Rules of Engagement (ROE) which restrict American troops from directly engaging the enemy. In Obama’s world of social justice, giving a life and death advantage to an enemy in combat is considered fairness.
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I never dreamed the leftwing, extremist youngsters would be able to take over the Pentagon. Never in my wildest dreams. We B in heap BIG trouble Kemo Sabe. Period!
If I’m not mistaken, the term that Hackworth used was “perfumed princes”.
“I am not interested in victory.” In re Iranian nuclear threat, G-20 news conference, September, 2009
He used the term "Porcelain" to the described soft soldiers and "perfumed princes" for image conscious political types.
I must have missed his reference to porcelain with respect to the soldiers. That term didn’t click for me at all.
Exactly right!...I was getting ready to make the same comment.
If anyone desires to see the direct impact of the Emperor’s military polices just compare American KIA in Afghanistan 2002 to 2010 and since 2010.
The KIA total since 2010, about 4 years, is something close to 3 times that of the preceding 8 years.
Any other questions about where the Emperor has focused his laser like attention?
My personal bottom line: Go visit THE WALL and look at all of those names and then realize that those names, individually and collectively, represent a generation’s wealth to the Republic. How many great life-saving discoveries were lost? How many potential Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were lost?
Then ask yourselves how many more are we losing because of the Emperor?
“American Military Leaders Now Working on Behalf of The Enemy”
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The whole concept of “enemy” has been turned on its head, IMO. The only wars currently being fought with vigor by our government, with an eye to total war and unconditional surrender after the victorious vanquishing of the enemy, are the political wars against conservatives and constitutionalists being waged on many fronts right here at home.
With that in mind, it bothers me very little, as a front-line issue, whether our military is weak or not. It worries me more whether the DHS/IRS/NSA/FEMA/TSA/CIA/FBI/etc is weak or not - and increasingly they are not.
To liberals that would be "Social Justice"
Not going to dismiss it out of hand, but Hackworth once claimed that the UK assisted the Vietcong during the Vietnam war, so I find any claim he might have made on anything highly suspect.
You are correct.
Yes. . .on occasion he put on his tin-foil hat and went on a zest-filled conspiracy-filled wandering.
“American Military Leaders Now Working On Behalf Of The Enemy”
Good. That would only help us.
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