President Obama addressed the West Point graduates Tuesday, May 27, in a speech that was at best confusing and uninspiring.
My mind goes back to May 12, 1962, when a true hero, General Douglas MacArthur, addressed the Corps, concluding with the sentence above.
General MacArthur believed that if you are in a war you try to win. He was fired as America's military commander of troops in Korea for trying to defeat North Korea on the battlefield. Instead, Americans died as negotiations dragged on and on.
Remember what was later termed the Philby conspiracy? Three young Britishers -- Philby, McLean and Burgess -- were traitors and spies for the Soviets. Every decision by the United States went immediately to England, the traitors, then on to the Soviets, the Red Chinese, and North Korea. MacArthur wasn't aware that the enemy knew every action and decision made by the United States went immediately to the enemy.
Snowden was not the first traitor within a spy agency.
My mind goes back to May 12, 1962, when a true hero, General Douglas MacArthur, addressed the Corps, concluding with the sentence above.
General MacArthur believed that if you are in a war you try to win. He was fired as America's military commander of troops in Korea for trying to defeat North Korea on the battlefield. Instead, Americans died as negotiations dragged on and on.
Remember what was later termed the Philby conspiracy? Three young Britishers -- Philby, McLean and Burgess -- were traitors and spies for the Soviets. Every decision by the United States went immediately to England, the traitors, then on to the Soviets, the Red Chinese, and North Korea. MacArthur wasn't aware that the enemy knew every action and decision made by the United States went immediately to the enemy.
Snowden was not the first traitor within a spy agency.
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