Famous local Hawai’ian god TikiPundit created the Gang of Generals (GoG) posters from his heiau in 2005. He has graciously assented to their being resurrected on this blog, since he is now retired. We graciously and humbly accept them, and post them below. 4 Borders Pundit will continue to update GoG as necessary.
4BP thinks it’s especially offensive that the Left now embraces GoG, after years (decades, John Kerry?) of sneering at them and everyone else in uniform for being “unable to get a job” in the civilian world. “If you’re stupid, you get stuck in Iraq.” How’s dropping out of the 2008 Presidency race feel, John? Got another dumb joke to get you out of the Senate, by any chance?
For a long time, the Left has sneered at military personnel for being undereducated. For being minorities exploited by white overlords. For being torturers and killers, or alternately, for being too operationally incompetent to hit the broad side of a Muslim terrorist’s hiney.
The faithless GoG — full of hate and self-loathing, I think — are a group of egotistical maniacs who think they know better. Largely, they didn’t know better when in uniform, and not one of them knows better now. They all know less. Some of them have been out of the game since Windows 3.1x was introduced. They’ve had not an intelligence update, not an operational planning briefing, not a salute, not a staff car, not a personal mess specialist, not a quick trip in a taxpayer-funded Lear Jet, not an aide-de-camp to straighten things (and their uniform) out, nothing.
Because generals and admirals are always motivated about something, GoG exists. The very individuals who cheerfully led their troops through poor quality-of-life, inept planning, lack of care or concern for their subordinates’ well-being or their families, the officers who drove thousands out of the service in frustration, all the while climbing the ladder on lip-service compliments to their lessers given only at award and change-of-command ceremonies — these are the self-same persons who are now decrying the military state of affairs in Iraq (but never Afghanistan, note).
There are GoGs in the making right now in the field grade ranks, be assured. More on that later.
The cynicism of GoG is stupefying. The hypocrisy is remarkable. The money to be made GoGing is attractive.
GoG will do anything necessary to obtain and maintain an audience. Since they can’t order a formation or “all-hands” anymore, they have prostituted themselves out to Mainstream Media. And that dog has lapped them up like sweet milk and given them an audience they never dreamed of before.
Everyone’s got an agenda in this case: GoG and MSM use and abuse each other, like willing Soapland hostesses and clients.
Here are the GoG Motivational Posters. As new GoGs emerge from underneath the rock of their retirements, they’ll be included. 4BP is paying special attention to their media awareness, as this is the best indicator of where they think they might find new appointments in a Democrat Administration in 2009.
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