The Corps was bored
With regard to the president’s speech at West Point this evening, and as a former member of the United States Corps of Cadets, I can tell you from the pans of the audience at Ike Hall that the CIC was putting them to sleep, telling them absolutely nothing that every plebe there already knew much better than their president seems to understand.
I mean the putting to sleep thing literally (one supposes that sleep inducing versus sleep deprivation is the opposite of torture). He was putting the West Point cadets to sleep. By posting this, I don’t mean to get any of the newest members of the long gray line in trouble; they pulled off Operation Prop with honor and dignity.
I’m commenting on the speech, by the way, and not on the stated strategy. It would have been nice, though, to hear the word victory used just once.
No use of the word victory. A whole lot of use of the word “I”. Not an inspiring speech, as far as pep talks from the leader in the same room with the people who have to put his vision into action goes.
Also, Obama broke from the tradition of visiting presidents granting amnesty (it’s a good thing) to cadets under discipline. When Reagan visited while I was a cadet, making a speech about nuclear weapons negotiations, I was quite personally grateful to him for pardoning our disciplinary sins before he finished his speech, as I found myself walking the area much more than I had ever intended.
Hey, does anyone want to fact check the president on his declaration that there was no such thing, ever, as a proposal for more troops in Afghanistan that would take place before 2011? That line was my Obama jaw-drop moment for today.
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Posted by ArrMatey on December 1, 2009 9:30 pm
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Syndicate Me
Huh, what year and what company were you in, from my Name you can figure what year I was – and I’ll give you a “fighting cocks” to get my company out there too …
From your name, we are classmates.
Root Hawg or Die
Well, I agreed with you before knowing this, just shows I had good reason too, even without knowing why.