The American Spectator

p> If most share buck sergeant Pechman’s view that the Commander in Chief or his Secretary of Defense should always defer to retired military officers, then he is right. Our democracy is in great danger. Zinni wants to return to a fantasy pre-9/11 stability and many of the others are upset with Rumsfeld’s vision of the future versus theirs (most of these can be put in the category of “fight the last war” types). On top of this are the remnants of the Clinton politicizing of everything. Wesley Clark was fired by the Clinton administration (rightly so for attempting to start WWIII with Russia). John Kerry’s disgraceful record of phony purple hearts speaks for itself. Maybe one of these days we will see his records that he promised to release. When you are in the military sometimes you have to follow someone into combat like buck sergeant Pechman, General Wesley Clark or Senator John Kerry and you just hope that the fact that they are Democrat or Republican doesn’t affect how they will approach their job. These three don’t give me any confidence in that regard. br> — Clifton Briner /p>