jack was referring to politicians then and now. I don't think we can fault our armed forces. They're as good as ever. They go where our countries send them and perform well although two out of three citizens back home say they shouldn't be there.
When our men and women are fighting and dying to carry out our national mandates to impose our values overseas, should we fault our democratic societies when they say we've changed our minds, bring them home? It seems to me we're denigrating our countries when we say our peoples have no guts.
Burdened with a leadership vacuum and two unpopular wars, our electorates have said no more sacrifices to bureaucratic lying and bungling here and over there, bring our men and women home. That takes guts. The difference between 1944 and now is that all our people knew then what we fighting for.
