[nopardons]

Many thanks for the excerpt and the link. That is absolutely brilliant ! And to think that this was actually printed in the Washinton COMpost, is even more stunning !

I wish that I could have heard that show. The posted article is mighty good . :-)

[RonDog]

Many thanks for the excerpt and the link. That is absolutely brilliant !

Hard to believe, but there it is:

washingtonpost.com

Hunting 'Chicken Hawks'

By Eliot A. Cohen

Thursday, September 5, 2002; Page A31

See also, from http://www.nationalreview.com/owens/owens.asp

The historical record illustrates that the judgment of soldiers is not always on the money. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1990, Colin Powell preferred sanctions against Iraq to the use of force. Eliot Cohen, author of Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime, pointed out in the Post the day after Webb's article appeared that George Marshall, the greatest soldier-statesman since Washington, opposed arms shipments to Great Britain in 1940. Most of the policymakers who involved the United States in Vietnam were veterans of World War II...