What a delight! A new post from my favorite columnist.
I never thought of myself as special. I was in sub-rosa human intelligence after successful assignments to all other human intelligence disciplines. I was very successful, scoring a number of coups as a Spymaster and strategic planner. That was just doing my job. I never conflated "My work is important" with "I am important." The work is best done by those with no need to accrue the admiration of others. While raping the entire Warsaw Pact's biological warfare research for years, I told everyone that I was part of a small group that found suitable facilities from which to conduct a defense of Western Europe against a Soviet invasion.
My job was urinal inspector. Nobody ever asked questions after learning what I did. I was the most boring guy on earth.
I found a satisfaction in service to my country; I know damned good and well the country was neither founded on nor fundamentally racist. Two things little known about the military:
1. It is the least racist part of our nation. President Truman officially integrated the military in about 1948, a move that was long-overdue. It was done, cynically, to hang onto the black vote, which shouldn't ever affect its value. It was already self-integrated largely.
2. It is the most anti-war part of society. That's because we know the cost of war better than anyone else. Not until we had the Powell Doctrine, never acting until we were capable of and committed to decisive action, was this understandable by most of society.
That's an excellent project. Thanks for reporting on it.
Excellent! Thank you.
What a delight! A new post from my favorite columnist.
I never thought of myself as special. I was in sub-rosa human intelligence after successful assignments to all other human intelligence disciplines. I was very successful, scoring a number of coups as a Spymaster and strategic planner. That was just doing my job. I never conflated "My work is important" with "I am important." The work is best done by those with no need to accrue the admiration of others. While raping the entire Warsaw Pact's biological warfare research for years, I told everyone that I was part of a small group that found suitable facilities from which to conduct a defense of Western Europe against a Soviet invasion.
My job was urinal inspector. Nobody ever asked questions after learning what I did. I was the most boring guy on earth.
I found a satisfaction in service to my country; I know damned good and well the country was neither founded on nor fundamentally racist. Two things little known about the military:
1. It is the least racist part of our nation. President Truman officially integrated the military in about 1948, a move that was long-overdue. It was done, cynically, to hang onto the black vote, which shouldn't ever affect its value. It was already self-integrated largely.
2. It is the most anti-war part of society. That's because we know the cost of war better than anyone else. Not until we had the Powell Doctrine, never acting until we were capable of and committed to decisive action, was this understandable by most of society.
This is so true and not known. Thank you for all you did every day.