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"a man who put his life on the line so they could all speak as freely as they did... ... for no other purpose than to position themselves politically..."
Generals, esp. in the post Vietnam era, are also political motherfuckers who seek to play their civilian superiors. Just bc a guy wears a uniform doesn't make him holier than though.
In case your interested, a great read on the sausage factory that is the Pentagon officer corp, you can't go wrong reading about John Boyd, the USAF fighter pilot who singlehandedly took on the Pentagon appropriations process, wrote THE book on modern supersonic dogfighting, made the A-10 warthog a reality, and then went on to rewrite the the Marine Corps basic combat strategy:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product…
That book will clue you in on how 98% of the upper echelon military officer corp are slimy political operators..and it's a hell of a read about a real American hero btw.