Speakeasy @ 115
Maybe, but in the ascendancy of Barack Obama and Eric Holder, if you were Army brass would you bet your career on it?

LOTM @ 126
“Fortunately John Edwards imploded but the next smooth talking wannabe demagogue is out there.”

Huh?? he’s in the White House, right now.

LOTM @ 144
Here in Chicago they can be Rabbis or Chinamen… or “my juice”
Your related observation is a big part of what I was trying to get at @ 103, except at that time I hadn’t heard anything about past problems at Walter Reed, etc.