Retired General Stanley McChrystal who never led troops in a winning war bravely threw out a picture of Robert E. Lee because his wife apparently made him do so. As a defense of the action he went into a brief explanation that he no longer considered Lee one of the great leaders. Lee, he said was a great soldier for 32 years but failed when he tried to destroy the country that Lee’s hero, George Washington had help build.
“CBS This Morning,” one of the outlets President Trump described as “the enemy of the people” i.e. fake news –was McChrystal’s soapbox. To accept what that CBS panel and guest offered as news would be no better than accepting a history lesson from most contemporary T.V. historians.
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McChrystal now has a business to run, the McChrystal Group, and hence a clientele to attract. His business is based at Yale and appears to have two prongs – an Elite Leadership course at the University and an advisory arm to businesses.
ReplyDeleteThis latter business has a staff of 100 of which more than a third are ex-military. That is a lot of people to pay and when it comes to the bottom line profit is the driving force of all commercial organisations. Kicking the memory of General Lee into the dustbin of history may indicate where McCrystal thinks the source of such huge funds may lie – these days a patriotic moral compass is not a necessarily requirement for business success.
Kicking the memory of General Lee into the dustbin of history may indicate where McCrystal thinks the source of such huge funds may lie – these days a patriotic moral compass is not a necessarily requirement for business success.
DeleteSad and thanks.