[lit-ideas] Re: Big Army versus Special Forces

Brian (quoting Vince Flynn):
>>Commandos live by a warrior's code, honor and integrity above everything.  Do 
>>what you say and mean what you do.<<

How old are these guys???


>> Politicians just say whatever will keep them in office.<<

Well, yeah, that's pretty much how the game is played.  Did Vince not know that?



>>Now, where you run into the problem is when you have the unprincipled, 
>>honorless politician telling the principled, honorable warrior what to do.<<

Hasn't this guy ever heard of democracy?
 


>>I don't know of a single Special Forces soldier who thinks Washington isn't 
>>run by a bunch of idiots.<<

Everybody thinks their boss is an idiot.  Get over it. 



>>We've worked for months planning missions, and then had the plug pulled at 
>>the last minute because some politician didn't have the guts to authorize 
>>it.<<

Far, far too few.



>>Big Army, as they call it, is a behemoth of bureaucratic regulation that 
>>slows down the quick and light Special Forces that are used to making snap 
>>decisions on the ground.<<

I'm against Big Army, too.  In fact, I'm against all Army.  If we had no army 
at all, I wonder what would happen?  Peace is my guess.  Certainly we wouldn't 
go starting any pre-emptive wars.  OK, maybe we need some kind of army.  I 
suggest 182,000 Generals, that's all we'd need, let them brass themselves to 
death and march in their own parades and erect statues of each other and tell 
the world what noble, courageous heroes they are.  No soldiers ever again, just 
Generals.   Pay them each $200,000 a year, that's only $36,400,000,000 a year 
-- hell, we spend over 10 times that every year -- not even counting what we 
spend in Iraq.  A small price to pay for peace, I say. 


Mike Geary
(actually, from my readings, I'd rank the upper echelons of the military as far 
more pacifistic than any politician or sad little psychotic Special Forces 
soldier -- in that sense, maybe Brian has a point.)

Mike Geary
Memphis

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