unlike john galt he isn't ficticious. he is a minor player in the grand scheme of things making a major grand standing play for recognition. why is the media trumpeting this low level incosequential marine's analysis of strategy. wonder when he'll declare what his political career will be.

ask a lot of questions as matt hoh (not whore, well maybe in spirit) will be this weeks republican cause celebre. check out beck and limbaugh.

in case you want to hear matt hoh's opinions:

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Found this on another board.My thanks to the poster,Genedio. I think it fits your post.

John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone, he could tell from a distance which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report just by listening to the bells. John's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, could run for cover. To John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job, and walk on to the next one.

John was so proud of old Butch he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair where he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.

I would doubt that Hoh is the next Republican cause celebre since the GOP is overwhelmingly supportive of expanding the war in Afghanistan. Beck tweeted about Hoh's resignation as a case of unreported bad news for Obama (and as a hate Obama attack), but Beck and Limbaugh are both supporters of increased US troop levels. As such, neither would likely be willing to lend Hoh an audience. I saw Hoh interviewed by Zakaria yesterday. He struck me as the kind of reasoned and principled officer he was trained to be. The fact that he resigned and refused other jobs speaks volumes about his conviction regarding Afghanistan, and possibly reflects a schism between senior and junior officers--military and diplomatic--much like what we saw in Iraq. All in all, Hoh's resignation isn't an angle that the supporters of the McChrystal plan would play up.