Oldtimer said:aplusmnt said:Oldtimer said:and actually had the backbone to speak out about it...
If he felt that way about all those conflicts and wars he took part in then why did he not have the backbone to do something about it at the time instead of just write a book about it after he done it all?
Pretty low life person that would carry out orders and partake in those things all in the name of what he thought was big business.
To me he sounds like a disgruntled employee who got fired or did not get something he wanted from his job. Or just another Liberal that wants to make the U.S. out to be some bad country.
You know what happeded to Admiral Fallon when he had the courage to speak up :???:
Someday you'll realize as you get older you truly do get wiser- and use more of your brain/emotions to make decisions with-- and the reasoning for things you did in the past becomes much more sensible/unsensible...
It sounds to me like he wrote these after he retired and had time to reflect on what he'd done.....Kind of like Powell lamenting on his involvement in promoting the GW lies- and all the Generals that have came out and now said they were overrode on their decisions by Rummy/DoD- and we were wrong with the invasion of Iraq....
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of displaced power exists and will persist."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You are the one that defended him from being a coward. Well if you took part in killing and ordering killing all the time knowing it was for corporate greed all because you were afraid you would be fired. Then you are a coward and worse! Just because you reflect on it while you sit in a rocking chair in older age does not make you a Hero or have backbone.
And I doubt all this Revelation came to him in retirement. Hard to believe such a leader knew nothing until it became time to write the book.
There are many reasons people like this turn once they are no longer on the job and not all them reasons are Patriotic or accurate.