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He’s the Commandant of the Marine Corps. It’s his job.

I’m simply not willing to join in on the scape-goating. I think we have better targets. He’s caught in the middle between a policy that he abhors, a Corps he loves, and his duty to follow the orders of those placed over him.

There is a new policy. He hates it but it is his job to develop and implement a plan to enforce it. He will do this to the best of his ability.

We’re all angry about this latest Congressional turd laid on the doorstep of the Pentagon. I’m angry about it. But I’m not going to be angry at the guy who... truth be told... obviously hates this as much as we all do. He’s got a Marine Corps that he loves more than life itself and he’s not going to abandon his marines now.

I don’t suppose that he’ll last very long now. He’ll do what he can to blunt the effect of this crap, but once his personal capital is spent, he’ll be given no real choice but to retire. He’s not the one to vent our anger on.

It’s Congress.