1 June, 1995

Wheeling News Register

Letters to the Editor

1500 Main Street

Wheeling, WV 26003

Dear Editor:

Mr. Bill the Great

Alexander the Great was called Alexander the Great because he personally lead his troops while they killed more people, of more different types, and in more different regions of the world than anyone else had done up to that time...

Julius Caesar personally lead the Roman Legions in conquering Gaul...

In between, many other leaders personally lead their troops in killing and suppressing inhabitants of various geographic regions for numberless political and religious reasons...

George Washington personally lead his troops across the frozen Delaware and into Trenton to rout the Hessians...

Napoleon even spent some of his time within range of unfriendly guns from time to time...

Although he was not the supreme commander at the time, Teddy Roosevelt personally lead his troops up San Juan Hill...

I cannot understand the reason why all of this personal leadership has stopped....did some kind of politician-only insurance company insist on this fundamental change in leadership activity as one of the conditions for coverage?

There has been a definite hiatus in the application of personal leadership of a supreme commander of any country's military activities, anywhere, for a long time. Adolph Hitler, Joe Stalin, and Chairman Mao let their underlings do all the dirty work while they lounged around in their offices looking official and taking credit. Are we , as concerned citizens, supposed to sit back and let this continue, or are we going to begin insisting that our leaders put their own skins within harms way whenever they entertain grand ideas about democratization of foreign realms?

I believe this is a perfect time for our current fearless leader to re-establish the highly significant and historically proper personal leadership of military formations while they attempt to accomplish the personal political and military goals of fearless leader and his New World Order coaches. It also provides a foolproof way to test whether the troops who have to do the kingpin's bidding really have their hearts in the job.

If CNN and the rest of the network media really want something captivating for the rest of us to watch, imagine how ratings would skyrocket when their pre-sited commentators, and pre-invasion TV cameras record the scene as our own Mr. Bill the Great clambers over the Slic, Bosnia sea wall with that American flag waving in his left hand and a .45 automatic in his right shouting: "Onward men! Lets go get those thugs and criminal Serbs and throw their heinies out of Bosnia!"