Actually, Rumsfeld is mild compared to some of the "old school" firebreathers who ran the military in years past. George Patton, who once ordered his command Chaplain to pray for good weather so his men could "kill more Germans" was no shrinking violet. Nor was the lengendary Marine Corps General "Chesty" Puller. In fact, American military history is filled with military leaders who tolerated no fools, and were as hard on their men as they were on themselves....,And They Think Rumsfeld's Tough?, Spook86, In From The Cold, 4/19/2006
Spook86 is more than a commentator; he's a pretty good military historian. His illustrative account of a real military pain in the ass, Admiral King, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations in World War II, which includes marvelous quotes from Dwight Eisenhower about the Naval chief, would do Samuel Eliot Morison proud. And he sure scores points with the notion that the Pentagon Six are star-crossed wusses.
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