Figures like Edward Snowden, Tom Drake, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou and a host of other whistleblowers loom large today above a world full of mostly sycophantic, cowardly and selfish adherents to the “rules.” Such truth tellers actually better represent the traditional nonconformist American ideal than any of their rule-of-the-road, stick-to-the-script fellow citizens.
In an op-ed for Salon, retired U.S. Army colonel Gregory A. Daddis criticizes America’s “ritualistic fawning” over veterans, particularly those who openly support military coups and encourage sedition and hatred.
He mentions retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn as one example of a veteran with anti-Democratic sentiments that detract from the immense sacrifices of the many heroic men and women in our nation’s all-volunteer force.
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