Hmmm. Kind of a questionable turn of phrase there, FRiend.
Maybe you don't get it. Our top political and military people are failures. The mid-level and low-level people are exploited for their lives, careers, and patriotism by the power-grabbers, the ultra-rich and the inherit-class at the top who, as I said, are failures, but, they'll live out their failed lives in luxurious splendor, writing books, planning coups, contemplating suicides, plotting schemes, murders and ways out of the mega-sewer that they have turned the United States into. Our politicians are almost a total garbage class as they are so amply demonstrating to us all. Our highest level military class are detatched multi-billion dollar program managers, not warriors, severely isolated from the troops they were originally sworn to direct and protect. The shocking dereliction in the deployment, equipping, and support of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is unforgivable, especially given the available budgets. The gross incompetence bountifully demonstrated daily by the continued and embarrassing planning and production of weapons systems designed for use against an enemy which has not existed for at least 20 years shocks and dismays while urgent and immediate needs are ignored, to wit...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16545885/
One can go on and on and on............