In the old days, officers and NCO's were paid to be LEADERS!!! Now, we are paid to be "managers", not leaders. Initiative has been written out of the "game plan" for our military's leaders. The DOD wants us to be "agressive", yet to utilize "restraint"...diametrically opposed concepts if you ask me!
I haven't been to Iraq...yet, but have been on the "volunteer" list for over three years (...have been told there's not a "great need for Reserve armor officers...right now), and I know this: if it comes to a situation where a bunch of "hadji's" are in a car, acting suscpiciously, and they've been told to get out of the car, slow down the car, or hit the dirt, and they DON'T, or they even so much as make a movement that I percieve to be "threatening or hostile"...TAP TAP, will be the last sound they hear!
This P.C. crap in the military, just turns my stomach! The DOD needs to make up it's freakin mind whether it wants managers, or leaders...a big difference. P.C. doesn't belong anywhere near the military, that's for tree hugging, birkenstock wearing, pinko, commie liberals! We're in a war...let the guys on the ground "shoot first, then ask questions later", so they can come home vertically!
Thanks for that very illuminating post! Your point was frustrating to have to hear, but as a civilian watching this conflict between men and women sent out to destroy an enemy and PC politicians and the MSM hovering behind them I can't imagine what it must be like for our troops and their miltary leaders.
The only option I have is to support our troops. Can someone, like yourself, tell me WHERE and to Whom can I make my voice heard from landside to counter this DOD "ambivalent policy"? To let the DOD know that there are many, many civilians who unequivecally support our military leaders to be Leaders.