Bush has been loyal to a fault in allowing his subordinates to exercise their authority within the chain of command.
If? what you say is true, that doesn’t deserve a pat on the back that is as it should be. When you have an outstanding employee then you should go the extra mile to keep that person especially an exemplary individual such as Peter Pace. I make this prediction one day the Red Chinese military will come to our shore to engage this country in war and we will fail and lose that war miserably because our politicians on both sides have ground up and crapped all over some of the world’s finest military leaders. I thought it was interesting that a politician like Harry Reid called a great general like Peter Pace inept. One, how would Harry Reid know he has never been a great leader. He’s a crook. Two, what are our leaders going to do in the military but fail when our politicians send our generals off to fight wars accompanied by lawyers to make sure that our war enemies rights do not get violated. Our generals are told to fight wars while handcuffed, not sufficiently funded, not sufficiently equipped and not sufficiently manned for the engagement they are tasked with.