Another friend is scheduled to soon come home from war. He’s a good man. Actually he’s one of the best I’ve ever met. He loves God, his family and his country. What makes him exceptional is that some of us view him as Superman and he’s extremely humble.

His name will remain a mystery. I’m sure you’ve heard there are people in Washington looking to silence those who question the application of the Asian wars. My friend plans to come home, having spent time in two theaters of operation, and to become one of those war veterans who don’t talk about experiences. He’s witnessed too many dead.

This isn’t to say he’s going to become a John Kerry and seek political gain at the expense of his fellow servicemen and women. I adjudged this much from his letter, he realizes there is empty talk in Washington. He realizes it didn’t end 35 years ago. Politics are dictating choices made in the field and the politicians are again mismanaging war for personal gain. And young people are dying as a down payment for political careers. The commanders in the field and the men and women serving with them believe they’re once again fighting with hands tied behind backs. I gather these people believe it could’ve been over long ago and many people would now be home with families and many more would be home alive instead of the alternative.

My friend planned to make the military his life’s vocation. Now he’s looking at year twenty, just around the bend, and ready to join the ranks of civilians. Meanwhile the military will lose brains and experience and the politicians seeking personal aggrandizement will grow in strength. To what long term result?

To recent news items are bouncing around my head. One concerned the leftist writer, Gore Vidal, who told the English press he expects a military dictatorship will seize power in the United States. In another decade such a cabal may be comprised of nothing more than leftist fellow travelers. The genuine patriots are calling it quits. So my country will have its own Trotsky or its own Guevara. We’ll rue the day.

Last week a General in the United States Marine Corp and writing from Hawaii had an op-ed piece in one of the large but dying east coast newspapers. He wondered aloud why the government never asks the average marine or foot soldier for a recommendation. This isn’t a new concept. During World War Two, General Omar Bradley put up a suggestion box outside his office. A soldier suggested telephones be placed on tanks. It simplified battle and the men could talk directly to tank crews directing fire on the enemy. For the enlightenment of the public school graduates, the United States and its allies won a decisive and unquestioned victory.

Now politicians go to the battlefield for campaign photo opportunities and then claim they’ve listened to the views of the men and women at war. Then the politicians come home and tell the commanders, who spend much more time within the ranks, to shut their mouths.

Check your history. The self-aggrandizing political class has once again hollowed out an empire. The jobs are gone. Food distribution is in but a few hands and soon the men and women in uniform will no longer serve the Constitution but the new breed of politically handpicked commanders. The time will come, when like Rome, these people will grab for power in a revolving door. Eisenhower and Reagan were the last to see the threat. The former saw it all slipping away and the latter longed for and was blocked from achieving restoration. All the other leaders of the last 50 years were just the weak bum-of-the-month chumps bringing down a great nation.

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