In it, is this line:
In the perils of war the whole state is entrusted to the care of the general, and the good effects of his success and the bad effects of his failures are likely to be equally far reaching.
This instantly brought to my mind the US conduct of the American War in Vietnam.
1. the general of choice was one General William Westmoreland. He had served in the Korean War with distinction.
2. his decisions were overseen and over viewed by President Johnson and his cabinet who were men chosen by his predecessor, President Kennedy. They included men like Robert McNamara, George Ball, etc. In other words, the generalship of the war was not the sole product of the decisions of Westmoreland. It was tilted and bent by Major General Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ. This same LBJ had no military experience at all. He was never at West Point. He was never in the actual field of any military conflict.
What we are point out is that it is as if a pilot of an F 16 is right in the middle of a dogfight with 3 Migs and he is being told and guided how to fly his plane by someone who has never flown a Cessna or even read a manual of how to fly one.
The ultimate responsibility of course falls on the shoulders of Westmoreland because, his generalship failed to beat the peasant army of Ho Chi Min.
Now, totally guilty for their fuc*ed meddling, Westmoreland, now utterly discredited, was given the balm and salve and made the Chief of Staff of the Armed Services.
Do you not feel that you would like it recorded by History that President Lyndon Baines Johnson was a deceitful ignorant military non-genius who led a non-General-Patton to fuc*k up the American War in Vietnam to the humiliation of every citizen of the USA?
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