Ready For Combat

Have you noticed how all the Generals and Colonels and assorted purveyors of the military propaganda line are seemingly always dressed up and prepared to do combat?

Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno

Here's the redoubtable deputy military commander in Iraq ready for combat! Standing tall, in an air conditioned room, next to a computer desk. Complete with flak jacket (something that seems to be hard to find among the privates and corporals who actually patrol among the explosive devices and rocket fire in Bagdhad. I've noticed that the generals who appear on the TeeVee, in briefing rooms, and on cable teevee news shows, wear the same sort of uniform. Showing their manliness in the face of the deadly questions fired at them by the inquisitors at Fox "News" (Motto: We Report; You Decide - always delivered with a straight face). With such a focus on the public image of the warrior/defender, the image rather than the substance, it's no wonder the current military adventuring is managing to lose not one, but two wars - simultaneously!