The Best Trained, Most Professional Military...Just Lost Two Wars?

[Ken White]

...information is posted that Gen. Ham wanted to go and was going to send forces despite the word from above and was relieved just seconds after telling people to act.

May or may not be true, we'll see. Too early to tell

Regardless and as I wrote things aren't nearly as bad as you seem to think -- nor are they going to be as easy to fix as we both wish...

...That kind of demonstration is important beyond immediate effects I think. It is good example and shows the people low down on the totem pole that maybe all isn't lost.

True but it is far too often incredibly difficult to do that -- unless the circumstances lend themselves to it...

[carl]

True but it is far too often incredibly difficult to do that -- unless the circumstances lend themselves to it...

That is why it is so admirable when it is done.

I didn't know there was a BLT sailing about. Where off the coast was it?