In response to why America trusts the military…Ed O'MalleyA former state legislator and gubernatorial aide, Ed O’Malley is President and CEO of the Kansas Leadership Center, a first-of-its-kind training center charged with fostering large-scale civic leadership for healthier communities. He tweets at eomalley.
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Confidence in the military comes easily because our soldiers care about something larger than themselves. Their work is not about profit, but duty and freedom; not about popularity (as is the case with media ratings, consumer rankings and political polls), but about the honor and security of America.
Cynicism about those in government, business and the media runs rampant, while Americans continue to hear heroic stories about military men and women, doing the work few in government, business and the media have done or likely would do.
In addition, perhaps we trust the military more because it delivers on its broad promise to the American people. We ask the military to keep us safe, and they deliver. We ask government to solve tough issues like lax regulation of Wall Street and government dithers. We ask media to shoot straight and then media bias, on all sides, is so evident. We ask big business to steward the economic promise of America and then find ourselves bailing out billionaires.
We trust military leadership because we know the military. My dad was a Marine, and my granddaddy was in the Air Force. My colleague's daughter serves on the USS Truman. Our recent widow-repair man served in Iraq. A friend flew refueling tankers over Afghanistan. I don't know any Wall Street billionaires, and that is fine with me. I'll take the leadership lessons from a soldier, sailor, air man or Marine any day.
As I told SN1... well, there could be such a thing (but I sincerely doubt it). This just serves to illustrate the perils of spell-check... sometimes that squiggly red underline goes missing, eh? Still and even, Mr. O'Malley's point has the ring of truth and is VERY well taken.***
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So. We're just now finishing our second cup after answering the overnight mail and such. We've yet to turn on our teevee, make the Daily Blog-Rounds, or even steal a look at memeorandum. Part of the reason I was up all night was the news coverage of the elections... and it appears to have been a great night for Republicans. I'm not all that adept at reading political tea leaves, but my initial reaction is "no big deal." The GOP, of course, is saying they're resurgent and the elections represent a referendum on The One and his policies. I don't quite see how state governors and such have anything to do with Mr. Obama and his policies, especially in New Jersey where God hissownself would have been defeated had he run as a Democrat. Too much party corruption there, for way too long. Still and even, I hope the GOP pols are correct and the public rejected Democratic candidates simply because they were Democrats. But I kinda doubt it.
We'll see.
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