He's a utopian, you could say, in a world where maybe he doesn't have all the facts and all the information he needs and isn't able to change.Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this how the Germans lost the war on D-Day, because Hitler overrode General Rommel when the latter suggested Omaha Beach as the likelier landing point for the allied invasion? And right up to zero-hour, Rommel's telling the command staff in Berlin (or at the Bunker), "It's Omaha Beach, I'm telling you! Redeploy the forces!" or something like that. And the senior staff couldn't -- or wouldn't -- because none of them was brave enough to be the messenger?
I'll tell you, the people that talk to me now are essentially frightened because they're not sure how you get to this guy.
We have generals that do not like -- anymore -- they're worried about speaking truth to power. You know that. I mean that's -- Murtha in fact, John Murtha, the congressman from Pennsylvania, which most people don't know, has tremendous contacts with the senior generals of the armies. He's a ranking old war horse in Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. The generals know him and like him. His message to the White House was much more worrisome than maybe to the average person in the public. They know that generals are privately telling him things that they're not saying to them.
And we have, what, another 3 years of this?
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