Air Force Chief Fired for Remarks on Iraq Strikes
Dugan speaks out in favor of an existing contingency plan that is probably the most sensible and least bloody of the proposed tactics for terminating the power of Hussein--and is promptly fired for his candor. For terminating casual drug use, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates discloses a desire that is so irrational and inhumane, so malignant and malodorous, that it signals a mentality utterly unsuited for public service--and he isn’t even censured.
What message or moral are we to draw from these parallel events?
C.J. WRIGHT
Venice
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