[Constitution Day]

Thanks for the ping.

"He is bombarded by advice from the conventionally wise who see danger on every hand. Some of them are military men who, as so often military men do and Churchill found, doubt the usefulness of force and counsel prudence or inaction altogether."

This sounds like a member of our current administration!
Now, I'm not going to call any names...

...but his initials are Colin Powell.

[ninenot]

I don't hold a particular brief for Powell--but military men who have been in REAL action--as has Powell--also understand the very serious business of dead soldiers. Not real easy to tell Moms, wives, children.

War is hell. Some who have never been military, or who only see Schwarzenegger movies, think it's like video games. It ain't.