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Permission to speak freely?
How much leeway should military commanders have in publicly disagreeing with the administration? Discuss round two of this week's Dust-Up.
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1.
At what point is it imperative that a soldier, private or general or admiral, speak out and refuse to follow policies of his superiors?
After all, at the Nuremberg Trials we righteously punished and criticized Nazis as being morally reprehensible, for claiming in their own defense, that they were "Just following orders."
2. A trillion dollars squandered and hundreds of thousands of lives turned inside, out! All those pretentious spy sats, unmanned aerial vehicles, fancy-schmansy sensors, aircraft worth untold millions (F22 is $140 million EACH! and the V22 is a deadly but profitable experiment for Boeing and Bell/Textron in Texas) and these clowns in the Pentagon...can't even swat fleas in the desert nor tick in the mountains! Yes, some great, and profitable (for some in Washington) war Bush and Cheney gave us.
3. An officer serving with the military must never forget that our military hasits policies and goals set by civilian leadership. This officer no matter how good his motives, violated the chain of command in addressing his concerns in the manner he did. The appropriate action if he was so concerned is to resign his commission and speak as a civilian. Governments around the world have fallen to military leaders who thought they knew what was best. I admire the US Military more than any other, but rebublics fail when the military fails to honor civilian leadership.
4. The Bushies are patriarchal and don't believe in dissent. As you can see, it doesn't work, the country is in trouble internationally and domestically.
5. Mr. Wolfowitz, why is it always the people who want to wage war are the ones who don't have to fight it?
6. This Admiral is a PATRIOT; he didn't sit in bush's lap like some Marine General did, drooling over his 15 minute of infamy! Too many Generals, Admirals, Colonels and Navy Captains just become politic junkies, instead of PROTECTING America, and it's TROOPS!!! Sadly, most of these guys are looking for prominent promotions or retirement perks with the biggest war profiteers...others become REMFs, hiding like Bush did during Vietnam, behind momma Barbara's skirts. SEMPER FI, ADMIRAL...and THANK YOU!!!
7. We will not know until Admiral Fallon comes forward like a true leader with a comment or writes a book.
Submitted by: Ronald Rubin
2. A trillion dollars squandered and hundreds of thousands of lives turned inside, out! All those pretentious spy sats, unmanned aerial vehicles, fancy-schmansy sensors, aircraft worth untold millions (F22 is $140 million EACH! and the V22 is a deadly but profitable experiment for Boeing and Bell/Textron in Texas) and these clowns in the Pentagon...can't even swat fleas in the desert nor tick in the mountains! Yes, some great, and profitable (for some in Washington) war Bush and Cheney gave us.
Submitted by: Robert Laughing
3. An officer serving with the military must never forget that our military hasits policies and goals set by civilian leadership. This officer no matter how good his motives, violated the chain of command in addressing his concerns in the manner he did. The appropriate action if he was so concerned is to resign his commission and speak as a civilian. Governments around the world have fallen to military leaders who thought they knew what was best. I admire the US Military more than any other, but rebublics fail when the military fails to honor civilian leadership.
Submitted by: Dr. Larry
4. The Bushies are patriarchal and don't believe in dissent. As you can see, it doesn't work, the country is in trouble internationally and domestically.
Submitted by: Shag
5. Mr. Wolfowitz, why is it always the people who want to wage war are the ones who don't have to fight it?
Submitted by: John Pecod
6. This Admiral is a PATRIOT; he didn't sit in bush's lap like some Marine General did, drooling over his 15 minute of infamy! Too many Generals, Admirals, Colonels and Navy Captains just become politic junkies, instead of PROTECTING America, and it's TROOPS!!! Sadly, most of these guys are looking for prominent promotions or retirement perks with the biggest war profiteers...others become REMFs, hiding like Bush did during Vietnam, behind momma Barbara's skirts. SEMPER FI, ADMIRAL...and THANK YOU!!!
Submitted by: robert NO Longer in LA
7. We will not know until Admiral Fallon comes forward like a true leader with a comment or writes a book.
Submitted by: JAC
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