Ralph Kinney Bennett has written a admirable salute to Super-Marine Lt. General Mattis over at Tech Central Station. It's a said day when a decorated soldier like the general can't make a manly and contrite statement on the destruction of our enemies. I guess free speech only applies to certain souls in the press. Fortunately, Bennett and several other respectful journalists have the general's back, much like the American public. Here's a sample from Bennett:
In the military it has always been true that what you see is not always what you get. The "salad" on the uniform chest often bears closer inspection. It may be the fruit of the career of a gifted bureaucrat, a crypto-politician, a superb manager, or a combination of these.
Nothing wrong with that. Our vast military establishment needs all of the above in varying ways and to varying degrees.
But it also needs leaders who are fighters. Those who will kick down the door. Those who will get the job done. As we have observed here before, all the niceties of democracy and civilization depend from time to time on a few men who will go down dark streets and do uncivilized and possibly undemocratic things we would rather not think about, let alone talk about.
Yet another respected journalist/writer is Mackubin Thomas Owens who has penned a very heartening piece on this awesome Marine.
I saw Bully for you Lt. Gen. Mattis!!!
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