A fellow Annapolis grad addresses Senator Webb

.....regarding Webb's response to the President's SOTU speech.

Excerpt:

"He is long on general accusations but they cannot survive serious critical thinking and examination – at least not to support the charge that the president was incompetent or reckless. Reasonable people can disagree about American Grand Strategy in the post 9/11 world, but the senator did not offer reasonable disagreements. Thus, he resorted to the recent Democratic ploy of finding one or two generals to counter what the president has done, and adopting them as oracles."



"Finally, Senator Webb says in one paragraph that he does not want a precipitous withdrawal but wants our troops gone in short order. Are these weasel words Senator? You are a writer. The written word is your craft. Please explain for the public the difference between precipitous withdrawal and short order. Additionally, he argues that “the majority of our military” are against the way the war is being executed. What has the senator been reading? Whence comes this information? Please share your data with the country."

The revelation that Ollie North beat Webb in the brigade boxing championships way back when was interesting. Had I known that, I would have asked Ollie about that when I got the chance to spend a short bit of time with him at the Reagan Day dinner at the convention center last year.

I can just imagine what Colonel North's response would have been.