George Patton, Secretary of Defense

Will James “Mad Dog” Mattis, who reminds the next commander-in-chief of George “Blood and Guts” Patton, be any more horrifying at the job than Robert McNamara, Caspar Weinberger, or Donald Rumsfeld?  We shall now see. George Patton’s ivory-grip Colt .45 was what a lot of little boys used to want for Christmas. No doubt some still do (and some of them are all grown up), but it is reasonable to assume that since the 1950’s heyday of tv gunslingers, Americans who consider themselves to be more enlightened than their parents no longer put those plastic six-shooters under the tree. And they would probably reproach a son who went bang-bang with such a toy at bad guys and then boasted about how it was “a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”  Just not cool anymore. But America still educates an officer class at West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs and myriad ROTC programs that is probably less disinclined along these lines.  They are, after all, trained to lead the lower ranks into mortal combat, where the moment of truth is not an enlightened activityWhen you don’t sleep, you don’t have the energy to lift and carry her vardenafil price baby, and later to keep up with the baby as the baby moves into the toddler years. Chronic drinking can restrict the viagra 50 mg blood flow to the reproductive organs. Are you still in doubt cheapest price for viagra and don’t know what actually causes erection problems in you. Keep all prescriptions far from kids and pets. viagra online sales is a prescription drug hence available only with a doctor’s prescription for buying these pills. . The hard-charging ones like Mattis who strive after battlefield commands instead of managing multi-billion-dollar procurement contracts tend to be ossified about social issues like gender identity.  Mattis has never experienced any adult life outside the Preußisch ethos of the Marines, not even in a marriage. In part, civilian control of the military is meant to offset these cultural incongruences, which is one of many reasons there has not been a former general as Secretary of Defense since Harry Truman decided to jump-start the military for war again in 1950. “Mad Dog”? He didn’t get it for surfing.

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