Shalikashvili

[winterbadger]

Good speaker, but I'd have loved to see him in his element as a commander. He's not, at a podium giving a prepared speech, much like the flag officers who I've met, and his background and speech are far from the leather-faced, PlainsState-drawling officers who I've worked with. But I think I can see some of the bearing and the quiet intelligence that must characterize him when he's working.