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staff officers is akin to Gen. Westmoreland's body counts in response to Pres. Johnson micromanaging the military's efforts, just as the current administration is doing. It undermines the military's efforts and allows for officers who are better suited to be politicians to advance their careers based upon the illusion of a troop surge, even if it is staffed with those who have sustained injuries rendering them unfit for combat, to accomodate the demands of the current administration. Eventually, Westmoreland (just as that fuck, Robert McNamara) was utterly and completely discreditted. But not before more than 50,000 were dead and millions of Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians were murdered in a failed and flawwed "war". He was a politician, not a military leader. Pace and Patreus are also politicians. Fuck them for not telling the truth and sacrificing their men for an unjust, illegal cause.
