That is why I respect Alan West. I would have loved being his battalion chaplain.
He understood the fine line between ethics and results. He walked on the line but he didn’t cross it.
The army crucified him for it, but now he tells them when to dance.
I would absolutely love for him to be the Cdr in Chief some day. It’s been a while since we’ve had a real soldier with real command experience at the head of the nation.
Good points FRiend, as for having a CinC with combat experience, we COULD have had Duncan Hunter in 2008, but he was run out of the primaries by the GOP-e and Fox News especially after he coined the phrase ‘The Kennedy wing of the Republican Party’, they hated him for that, and after Faux News sought to minimize him, I unsubscribed, told Faux that Rupert Murdoch could kiss my effin ass, and they are dead to me.
Duncan Hunter had 26 years on the House Armed Service Committee, many years as Chairman, U.S. Army Ranger with combat experience in Vietnam, one of the original Reagan Republicans who went to Washington in the Reagan landslide of 1980. I refer to him as the ‘greatest President since Reagan that America was too g*dammned stupid to elect’.
When General Chuck Yeager not only endorses but chooses to serve as campaign chairman for a patriot like Hunter, that speaks volumes.