[wideawake]

The contempt among Army junior officers for much of their retired brass is palpable now.

They are the ones with hard experience in a tactically-challenging war, and they have less patience for the pontifications of the Vietnam generation.

Scales was a Clinton lizard who resigned from active duty the moment President Bush was elected - almost literally.

[colorado tanker]

"The Army's collapse after Vietnam was presaged by a desertion of mid-grade officers (captains) and non-commissioned officers," Scales wrote a year ago. "Many were killed or wounded. Most left because they and their families were tired and didn't want to serve in units unprepared for war....

Total bullcrap. Large numbers of Captains and Majors were involuntarily RIFTed. I was there.