We have “A Few Good
Men”; We Need “Good Leaders”!
We are all familiar with the US Marine
Corps slogan “Looking for a Few Good Men.” Truth is, America
Recently,
we met former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on the set of Hannity.
We’d spent most of our day scouring his newly released book, Duty,
hoping to better understand the seeming total lack of leadership and direction
our military has been subjected to in recent years. In all honesty, there were
no revelations in Mr. Gates’s book, only confirmations of what we already
understood – this Commander-in-Chief had turned his back on the men
and women still fighting in Afghanistan
As parents of a Navy SEAL killed in action,
perhaps the most difficult words to swallow in his entire memoir were the
following: “I never doubted Obama’s support for the troops, only his support
for their mission.” First, let it be known that in a warrior’s heart, if you
don’t support his mission, you don’t support him.
He is his mission.
How could any president, with a clear
conscience, send men and women to fight and die for a cause in which he himself
does not believe? To do so is to spit in the face of not only the embattled
warrior but also every family member he or she leaves behind… time and time
again.
Second, if you truly support those who
offer their lives on your behalf, you will most certainly deliver to them a
clear, concise strategy for success – also known as
VICTORY – whether you believe in their mission or not. This is the
least they deserve when they lace up their boots for yet another day (or night)
of battle.
From
a broader perspective, though, this family is most troubled by a question we
have heard many times in the past few weeks: “Why did Robert Gates wait until
now to bear his soul on all of these troubling issues he dealt with from 2009
through 2011?” We would very much like an answer to that question, as well.
Eight hundred and fifty US
soldiers have taken their last breath on the battlefields of Afghanistan
From July of 2011 through September of
2012, over five thousand US soldiers returned home seriously wounded. Although
statistics are not yet available from October 2012 till present, one can only
imagine the enormity. As heartfelt as his words were regarding the reverence he
has for our troops, Mr. Gates left us grasping to understand why he waited so
long to sound the alarm on this inept administration.
This nation had a right to know. We had a
right to cast an informed vote in 2012. We should have been told that Barack
Obama and Hillary Clinton both acknowledged they’d put career before the lives
of our nation’s heroes… before the life of our only son. We should have been
told that our Vice President, the second in command of our military forces,
hadn’t made a sound decision on national defense in four decades. This isn’t a
joke. There are no chuckles about Uncle Joe’s ineptitude around the dinner
table of a fallen soldier.
Silence reigned, and heroes died.
We are better than this.
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