More 'General'

I've had the opportunity to serve under some good generals in my time, I was in awe of Norma 'Ma' Brown, whom I'd gotten to know personally (no, get your minds out of the gutter) while at cross-training before heading to SAC, and there were 3 or 4 others.

Richard Holbrooke is a man who's known his share of flag officers and is a level headed Foreign Service officer. So far, he has the best take on what all these generals coming forward really means:

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These generals are not newly minted doves or covert Democrats. (In fact, one of the main reasons this public explosion did not happen earlier was probably concern by the generals that they would seem to be taking sides in domestic politics.) They are career men, each with more than 30 years in service, who swore after Vietnam that, as Colin Powell wrote in his memoirs, "when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in half-hearted warfare for half-baked reasons." Yet, as Newbold admits, it happened again. In the public comments of the retired generals one can hear a faint sense of guilt that, having been taught as young officers that the Vietnam-era generals failed to stand up to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Lyndon Johnson, they did the same thing.

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Great thanks to Middle Earth Journal for the link.