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Chest candy

Probably a photoshop joke, although this is North Korea, and police states do tend to do power things like this to excess. But it’s one reason why I’m having trouble getting very exercised about Barry’s plan to downsize the Pentagon.

We haven’t seen anything quite this ludicrous by American military officers (altho we have plenty of sheriffs and police chiefs who seem to think they are four-star generals) but I do recall that General Petraeus’s chest candy climbed up to and almost over his shoulder. And most of his medals were for pencil-pushing, the kind that senior officers award each other. Now that old Betray Us has been retired, hopefully some of his pals will be downsized.

Via Simply Jews.

Chest candy

Baldilocks does some sniping at Dick Cavett, etc., for complaining about Gen. Petraeus’s pyramid of ribbons (a third of them hidden by his lapel) that make his uniform look lopsided. Not a real man, Cavett, etc. Wimps, and so forth. Well, at the risk of being lumped with the girlie men, I also think all that chest candy looks ridiculous. Much as I admire the general–a modern Grant or Sherman, to be sure–I have to say that most of the stuff on his uniform is boilerplate that everyone has been awarded, such as his National Defense Service ribbon with two oak leaf clusters. It’s not personal. I would much prefer a high-ranking American officer pare his/her ribbons/badges down to the half dozen or so that really are distinctive. It would look a lot more serious; much less like a pretentious peacock.