Straight-Shooting Jones, (Washington Times)…Georgie Anne Geyer
Our new national security adviser to the president-elect is perhaps best known as the supreme allied commander of NATO from 2003 to 2007, but to me he should be heralded as the supreme survivor of the last eight years. Here’s why: …
We pressed him on Iraq, and we particularly pressed him on the responsibility of the military man to speak out. He was very careful in his answers. He finally said there is a law in America that military men have “the obligation to speak their own minds … when they testify before Congress.” There is such a law, although few invoke it.
I always think of that moment as the moment when a man, long put-upon to fight and lead in wars he did not believe in, deftly pointed out to us, by inversion if you will, the military man or woman’s real responsibility.
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