1.0 link 8517 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-bacevich/the-courage-of-captain-fi_b_8517.html No one doubts the bravery of the American soldier when facing enemy fire. But do senior leaders possess moral courage equal to the physical courage of those they send into battle? The question, first posed during the Vietnam War, has recently reemerged. In Baghdad’s “Green Zone” and in Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon, a penchant for ignoring inconvenient facts and tolerating the intolerable has left the military professional ethic considerably the worse for wear. Now a very brave and very young officer...

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