Common Sense is a virtue which overrides all forms of education, and in it, I always am fond of reading the assessments of others who have attained by God's Grace great stations in life due to merit.
Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to his son, Ted, who I believe rose to the rank of General in the United States Army. In it, it is interesting in this self made man, man of war, man of the people, his assessment of those in the military of education.
In the Army and the Navy the chance for a man to show great ability and
rise above his fellows does not occur on the average more than once in a
generation. When I was down at Santiago it was melancholy for me to see
how fossilized and lacking in ambition, and generally useless, were most
of the men of my age and over, who had served their lives in the Army.
The assessment is quite factual in of the caste and cast of the military, unless there is some great war to slaughter hundreds of thousands of people in, and the opportunity to risk your life to death and somehow by Holy Angels defeat it, that the military is a perfectly mundane paycheck of being bored to retirement and death.
It did surprise me the President's assessment, but he was dealing with his son, and not some forum of perspectives of great men and opportunities in fiction.
If one examines the careers of military men, especially in the Obama minder generation installed by William Clinton, where the military is an immoral experiment in sodomy and a hired mechanical unit to assassinate those in competition with the world mafia, then Theodore Roosevelt was absolutely spot on January 21st, 1904, in the same military is the same military whether in the 20th or 21st century, and the reality it is a worse institution now in reflecting the European institutions and little of the American fighting spirit.
To review those of military careers of standing, what can one say about John McCain, but he serves the conglomerates and lies to those on the right and to John Kerry, that he protects the Hitlers of Islam for oil and takes rice exploded in his ass well by his own hand grenades.
What has Colin Powell exemplfied as a military man, but someone who stepped on pointy sticks in Vietnam and stopped the destruction of Saddam Hussein while promoting Birther Hussein Obama.
Each era has it's own leaders in the military and some are more than sound in George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, but it was not their first calling, but a vocation to serve America in time of war.
If one can obtain a free education via the military, and then provide service as an officer to find a greater vocation, then that certainly is a career today, but by the same reality, that Annapolis education, and a Naval deployment accomplished nothing for Jimmy Carter in being thee white Obama of the Presidency.
Richard Nixon served America not as a military graduate, but as a college graduate as an officer. He worked extremely hard to gain a scholarship as his family could not afford Georgetown. It is those who rise up and put in the effort who have the best opportunity to succeed.
I place the above reality of the military here for the simple reason, in there is far too much uniform worship in America along with diploma worship. When the scales are balanced, it is rare the person who rises up from a military or Ivy league background. It is who one knows and not what one knows in most cases.
In light of that, those with diplomas and ensignia, nor police or firefighters, are not superior, but proven time and again inferior to those rats in the maze who did not settle for the donuts followed by a pension which they slept their way to.
nuff said
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