Worthy Hackworth

The Donkey is not a veteran. So The Donkey likes to hear veterans' opinions on our world. Colonel David Hackworth is a veteran writing and advocating for soldiers and sailors and marines.

Samples:

...Maybe changing Memorial Day to Consequence Day would foster deeper, more reality-based thinking and more public debate...

...we are still being told the systematic and methodical abuse of Iraqi prisoners was only the independent actions of 7 lower enlisted personnel. If you believe this is a case of Big Brass CYA, that DOD is hanging out 7 enlisted people to cover up a program that had been going on for more than one year...

...Top military managers insist that our all-volunteer Army isn’t stretched too thin from this country’s heavy and hazardous commitment to hot spots like
Iraq and Afghanistan and cooler places in another 131 countries around Planet Earth. They spout positive numbers like carnival hucksters, hyping enlistment and re-enlistment rates they keep insisting are at an all-time high.

“Loyalty, patriotism and seeing the results of successfully accomplishing their missions are the key factors in this success,” said Col. Elton Manske, an Army personnel chief in the Pentagon.

Except that’s exactly 180 degrees out from what hundreds of soldiers have told me during the past few weeks....

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