Dan: Dude, you rock. Seriously. Plus, you used the word “hypercalcemic”! Nice.
Relative to the tautology, I wanted to yank yer twine and see if I could get a response.
I also agree with the paradox of the modern Tea Party and its “Keep your government hands off my Medicare” mantra. No cure for stupid.
No, I don’t believe that Wesley Clark is a doofus. Far from it. He is representative of that ass-kissing, social-climbing Politically Correct general officer that the Army is awash in right now (and has been for the last generation). These officers know the right asses to kiss, the way to play the game within “The Corporation” (the Pentagon) and will do or say anything to advance their own fortunes, whilst never given offense or telling the truth.
So, Clark isn’t a fighting general (in the WWII sense of the word), doesn’t really know tactics, or strategy, or war-fighting, since he hasn’t been involved with the “dirty” side of the business since he was probably a major or light colonel, but that doesn’t prevent him from appearing on every news show that will have him, blathering on about shit he knows less than nothing about.
Tommy Franks, and Shinseki and McChrystal fall into this category as well. Stan McChrystal’s most serious failing wasn’t running his mouth to Rolling Stone, it was pretending he had a fucking clue about what to do in Afghanistan. His contention that he “wrote the book” on counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan was a howler because it WAS NOT a counterinsurgency war at all. Again, no cure for stupid.
