A Different Kind of Courage Is Required
Our military leaders are willing to take a bullet for this country. But are they prepared to take a pink slip?
Military leaders are bred for two kinds of courage—the courage to expose themselves to hostile fire and the courage to assume responsibility for the gravest decisions anyone can make. Most of them, particularly in the upper ranks, demonstrate those qualities. But what they need now, in the face of an unprincipled and brutal commander in chief, is a different kind of bravery.
The president raves of “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” while ensconced in a blast-proof basement. Angered by cable-newscasts noting that fact, he had armored and helmeted police sweep a park of peaceful protestors before a curfew, using smoke grenades, flash bangs, and the threat of batons. All this so that he could stand before a
