[robowombat]

Gen Franks reflects on the current campaign and other things.

[cynicom]

robo....

A salute did that???? Some people are motivated by window dressing.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I've been at the other end of conferences with GEN Franks, and what struck me more than anything was the profound respect his immediate subordinates (all were 3 Stars) treated him.
It was true respect, not fawning to get ahead.

[Congressman Billybob]

This is a powerful piece. All the more so because it wanders from the very personal to the global. I, too, got chills from the simple phrase, "There is no traffic over the Atlantic." Before 9/11, it was hard to imagine anything other than an invasion from space that would shut down all traffic over the Atlantic.

My respect for General Franks, already high, has gone up. I read what he says about his grandchildren and I know that this man is well-grounded as a human being. I read what he wrote about Clausewitz and I know he is well-grounded as a thinker. In both ways he reminds me of General George Patton.

Congressman Billybob

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