In contrast to all the platitudes about sacrifice, this general loves his job. What saddens me about this episode is not that he would say such things; no kidding plenty of the macho guys in the military think it’s fun to shoot people—look at the games in any arcade. No, what depresses me is that if this general had said, say, “I have never been comfortable taking orders from a black superior,” he would have immediately been forced to resign because of the PR disaster. But I don’t hear much of an outcry over his actual remarks, which I find much more deplorable.
The Joy of Labor
