We're neck deep in the big muddy, and the big fool says to push on!

The American "generals" who are demanding more American cannon fodder to "save" their war in Afghanistan would do well to check Pete Seegar's song about "the big muddy". Their stupidity reminds me so much of my meeting with Captain Timmerman, the former aide de camp of the general who ran our 4th US Armored Division in Goeppingen, Germany, while I worked there as Intelligence Operations Officer for that Division.

When I accidentally ran into him in Camp Enari, the American base of our army near Pleiku, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, he bent my ear for several minutes, telling me how much he envied my job in active combat, and how much he also wanted to be "Where the Action is".

To get that windbag off my back, I offered an immediate visit to his personnel officer, trading my combat job for his desk assignment. This immediately got the loudmouth to shut up, and he stuttered while walking away.

So would be the reaction of our generals in Afghanistan, if they could be assured that they would actually have to put their neck on the line to achieve an American victory!