One of the many things that might be wrong with the military today (along with the outsize influence of rightwing fundamentalist beliefs and not having a draft so not everyone gets to experience and influence military culture in a truly democratic way as it was in my day, etc.) can be illustrated by these two photos. One of these generals helped turn the Iraq War around, the other helped defeat the Nazis and win World War Two. Notice anything different about (actually on) their uniforms?
I understood why fellow officers admired Petraeus's intellect and focus, but it always offended me to see all that crap on his chest, seemed like too much self-congratulation and promotion, and Viet vets I know who weren't officers expressed the same sentiment.
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Salad daze?
interesting that you bring Ike into this..
he had and ongoing affair with a gal who was his driver
in Europe for MANY MANY years....
everyone including his wife ignored this cheating...
and then to top things off Eisenhower picked Tricky Dick to be his veep !
on all levels power corrupts
the only military man who seems to have any integrity is Colin Powell !
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