Of course all of these already had various models of same-sized sedans: Buick, Chevrolet, Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge, Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Pontiac.
The car was meant to honor Edsel Ford, for some reason or other.
You got to give it to Mike for tenacity on certain issues. Case in point, the 22 seals that were killed on a single crappy slow helicopter in a hot zone in afghanistan on bambi’s watch. On another note, the nazis sent a number of their most notorious henchmen to fight partisans in italy, knowing they’d most likely be killed.
IMO the military needs to get involved politically when the issue is an existential threat against our country -- or Washington chaos exposes the military needlessly and individually.
Much has been written about "no more Viet Nams". I cannot find it but I remember reading a strong statement by Wesley Clark back when he was a field grade officer -- IIRC he stated that the military must never allow themselves to be put into that situation ever again.
I say again and again: there's an immediate though not so obvious threat and with the help of someone who described the threat 150 years ago -- goes by the name of Abe Lincoln I heard -- I attempt to define it:
We initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. We now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Why should our military be obligated to follow civilians of the Marxist-Alinsky radicals variety (the other "America") who have worked for decades to "bring it all down, man"? The military must decide with the real America.