[peyton randolph]

Put daisies in their gun barrels and give peace a chance. /sarc

Of course, what should one expect from a military strategy that allows Mookie Sadr and Iranian President Imanutjob to dictate the terms of battle.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

... telling three other Marines under his command to "shoot first and ask questions later, ...

This was a common saying for GI's in WWII movies. While I trained for Vietnam, the Hispanic DI's would tell us the same thing. It's only common sense.

What our military desperately needs is a sense of justice for its soldiers. Take the JAG officers and give them front line duty in real combat for a year before they get rear support support assignments. Maybe they will get a new perspective on reality.

[PhilDragoo]

Of course, what should one expect from a military strategy that allows Mookie Sadr and Iranian President Imanutjob to dictate the terms of battle.

My response to this vital question consists of two bullet points:

God Bless the memory of Gunny Hathcock.

It was a Marine then-captain who held the chart for the Joint Chiefs November 1965 in the small White House conference room where they attempted unsuccessfully to persuade LBJ to allow them to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong.

That fifteen minutes of shame is described in "The Day It Became The Longest War" in the May 1996 Proceedings of the Naval Institute.

The military can only enact the political will of civilian leadership which in the extant case is seen through a glass darkly.

Indeed why is Mookie still killing our people if not to placate a perceived Iraqi/Arab "street" which would include his patron in Tehran that neo-Hitlerian Aloud Jihadinutjob.

If we are in it to win it then tell these wiseass prosecutors to stand down.

There was a scandal over the USNA electrical engineering exam in 1993-4 which put the careers of hundreds of midshipmen at risk because the firebreathers could not establish who had the crib, who'd seen it, who knew about it but did not report it--but someone had eaten the captain's strawberries and by Godfrey there'd be hell to pay.

No doubt some of the overamped shysters in the current fiasco cut their teeth on that capital case.

That was the May the President (traitorrapist42) addressed the brigade in That Stadium with Those Battles on its walls and famously lied for 32 minutes he would not put our people at risk in Bosnia. And that worked out well.

Here we are and that traitor's beard will be 44 if there is not a major. . .a major course correction.

Namely, more Patton, less Wally Cox.