Velvel states: "Today, there is no accountability for our leaders, nor do their own families face death on the front lines as occurred during the Civil War (when several Cabinet officials' sons or brothers faced battle) and World War II (when one of FDR's sons participated in extraordinarily dangerous missions in the Pacific). Today there are, rather, only very different factors---factors that make it easy and safe for leaders to fight wars; there are half trillion dollar appropriations, huge standing military forces which the President orders into combat all around the world at the proverbial drop of a hat, a compliant congress that refuses to do its duty, and an incompetent, if not venal, mainstream media.
Writing of Obama, Velvel said that he "seems to be drinking the same Kool Aid that was drunk by, and destroyed the presidencies of, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush." Velvel said that President Obama's actions in Afghanistan "indicate he has learned nothing from the debacles in Indo China and Iraq. They are especially dumb for having been made by a guy who is quite smart"."
Velvel is cofounder and dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, a law school purposefully dedicated to providing a quality, affordable education for students from minority, immigrant, and low-income backgrounds who would otherwise not be able to afford a legal education and practice law. He is also founder of the American College of History and Legal Studies, scheduled to open in Salem, N.H., this August. #
Sherwood Ross is a media consultant to the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. Contact him at sherwoodross10@gmail.com
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