The Generals

There is something about generals that honestly make me question how the f..k they got to be generals. Well, I can tell you one thing. Politics. Once a general gets past one star, it is all politics. By far the best military officers don't get to be general.s Listening to this General Allen on some TV program talking about our efforts to arm and train moderates in Syria, was nauseating. By any standards, any attempts we have made in Syria have been an abject failure. We don't even know who the players are. And, the worst part of this whole scene is once "they" (whoever the hell they are) have

 defined some strategy even if it proved bullshit, they want to continue ignoring the failure. The "generals" always want to present they are "winning" when they are hardly in the game. It is that same old thing we know.Something like, "If you continue to do the same old thing you have always done, you are going to get the same results you always have. Like this, "getting rid of Assad." Where is he going to go? He has nowhere. There might have been a time when getting rid of him seemed the smart thing--but now, five years down the road, maybe we need a new strategy. But, trust me on this: the General Allens don't have it. .