For those of you that lament the departure of Jim Maddox as the Secretary of Defense, consider this: Maddox, in his resignation letter, touted his 40 years of ‘immersion’ in the geopolitical space and expertise as a warfighter. Given that nearly half of those 40 years (17 to be exact) were spent prosecuting, poorly I might note, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and in other sundry hellholes of the Middle East, he obviously has a limited toolkit and it is long past time that he moved into a domain he is better suited for. How many more of our brothers and sisters was he willing spend on this failed nation building insanity?
I’m being harsh, but he opened this can of worms….not me. Oh, and by the way, every American, regardless if they have served or not, has the absolute right to demand sanity in those things that are done in our name. I’ve spent more than 20 years in uniform, that 20 years buys me no greater voice than any other American. Every veteran understands what I just said, it’s time every American did too.