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In reply to the discussion: U.S. Military and Intelligence Officials to Obama: “Assad NOT Responsible for Chemical Attack” [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)You may well not care what I think but you are trying to influence opinions here by using your long past status as a grunt in military intelligence as bonafides to neutralize counter points.
This is not to dog you but to jog the thoughts of those reading the exchange to the very real idea that your experience and those of folks much further up the food chain in much more recent times is probably divergent.
You didn't hit the revolving doors or become a political adviser. You kept your lips buttoned and left the game behind a lifetime ago and only knew it from the level of a fairly low level military operative, you weren't even commissioned, if I recall correctly, much less in field operations or especially the Director level loop.
Nothing wrong with that, saying so is not a slight.
It is citing a different perspective may well be operative that you cannot speak to from your experience much more than a school kid, it isn't even an apples to bananas comparison and sure isn't apples to apples.