[Schmedlap]

I'll bet that Bo Grites was a great soldier and great leader of soldiers. I'll bet he is very tactically proficient. You can be all of those things, while also knowing absolutely nothing about devising a sound strategy on the coalition or national level.

His points are well taken, but I think that they only provide a strong case for revamping our immigration laws, establishing our borders, and conducting large scale annihilation of those who would be both so foolish and so evil as to try to kill American citizens.

[rstevens]

I'll bet that Bo Grites was a great soldier and great leader of soldiers. I'll bet he is very tactically proficient. You can be all of those things, while also knowing absolutely nothing about devising a sound strategy on the coalition or national level.

Bo Gritz, like Col David Hackworth, were extremely brave and courageous leaders at the company and Battalion level. They lived among their troops being at the forefront of all combatative operations. They were practically worshipped by their troops. These officers had a propensity for visiting the local whorehouses and bars with their NCO's and lower enlisted ranks. They were considered great fighting leaders, but lacked that officer quality for commanding larger than Battalion sized units. This is why they both retired as colonels never getting close to the general rank.

I served with a Lt David Hackworth in the 40th Inf Div in Korea. I've never known a better platoon leader nor warrior than he.

A shame that the "Hack" never was able to progress into the higher leadership ranks of the US Army, but he was not a politician, he was a soldier's soldier.