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Originally Posted by PRB
You have to understand respect to show a lack of respect.
I doubt he meant anything by it.
The military is just one of the things he is in charge of, he doesn't really think about it much. It just is....
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I believe you have the right of it. I doubt he feels anything more than boredom or disinterest unless someone poses an obstacle, then it's probably mostly irritation at the interruption of his internal monologue. Narcissists and sociopaths (but I repeat myself!) don't tend to view the rest of the world the same way as most of us.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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