Posture Conveys Meaning

For John, BLUF:  Not everyone in Washington favors attacking Syria.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The headline on the OpEd Page of the 5 September edition of The Washington Post is "A war the Pentagon doesn’t want".  The lede:

The tapes tell the tale. Go back and look at images of our nation’s most senior soldier, Gen. Martin Dempsey, and his body language during Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Syria.  It’s pretty obvious that Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, doesn’t want this war.  As Secretary of State John Kerry’s thundering voice and arm-waving redounded in rage against Bashar al-Assad’s atrocities, Dempsey was largely (and respectfully) silent.

The author is retired Army Major General Robert H. Scales, a former commandant of the U.S. Army War College, at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Regards  —  Cliff