[WarriorDiplomat]

Originally Posted by lindy

There is a large number of people in the IC that consider those two positions the same. There are still many patriots too but something must happen when career employees get elevated to the executive service: they lose sense of WHO we serve and apparently care more about leaving their mark on the org.

After 8 years of BHO, we, in general, act like an abused child after to do anything unless we do it together (via working groups) in order to avoid responsibility for decision making and blame it on “bureaucracy”.

Folks who advocate for “speed, surprise, and violence of action” are quickly sidelined as cowboys.

I completely agree with the reality of a person who accepts that level are more than likely compromised to an extent anyway and in that case we must defer to the policies of whom they serve. Personally I do not believe that public servants are to be idealistically promiscuous to survive in an organization or government in this era where revolution is near impossible given our consistent revolutions over government officials every 2-4-6 yrs however the equivalent today must be for a patriot is to be willing to not shed literal blood but to shed proverbial and institutional blood in protest through actions such as speaking out.

There are many who say they believe in loyalty to country in words but in actions would never stand against something as evil as the fallen Messiah's BHO administration by protesting and speaking out even if they pay a career penalty but few will or would....their tends to be a practical and philosophical attitude towards these actions as not really helping anything but undermining the individual.....the idea of playing politics to further a career makes me sick especially politics and policies so diametrically opposed as Obama's were to America's best interest. Somewhere out their a true believer exists and it is these that will stand over the ashes and rebuild freedom......Not in a million years will you convince me that someone who served as a senior O level and gained rank under the previous administration had the intent of gaining position to top cover the troops