Medals for Drone Operators Canceled

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/us/politics/medals-for-drone-warriors-canceled.html?ref=us

With all due respect ... Outfinstanding!  One, it seems to me, has to credit Hagel's personal combat experience in Nam, his character and also his responsiveness to outside pressure groups.  Yes, I know that I just suggested a positive value to outside pressure groups.  I was initially conflicted when I wrote that because my current perspective has been of the "moneyed" groups successfully exercising influence in both executive and legislative matters to the detriment of the general welfare of the nation.  Here, the groups were assemblies of veterans and their supporters who influenced some in Congress and to some degree Sec. Hagel.  Here these veterans, in groups and individually, brought petitions on an issue relevant to them yet not for their personal selfish advancement and not merely with checkbooks. Certainly, there is the inherent political element of the number of votes at issue but that is and should be the nature of this beast.  For once, it worked righteously.