Essay by J.D. Pendry criticizes foreign policy stances of Democratic politicians.
Command Sergeant Major J.D. Pendry served in the U.S. Army (not the U.S. Marine Corps, as stated in some altered versions of this piece) from 1971 to 1999 and is the author of the 2001 book The Three Meter Zone: Common Sense Leadership for NCOs. In 2006 he penned an e-mail entitled 'On Your Hands,' which has been widely circulated on the Internet under a variety of titles (including 'Axis of Idiots,' 'No Punches Pulled Here,' and 'Insight of a Sergeant Major') and has since been altered by others.In a May 2008 blog entry on his (now inactive) web site, J.D. Pendry explained his original motivation for writing the piece:['On Your Hands' was] a mailing I sent to my private email list on June 24, 2006. I don't feel a need to explain myself, but I wrote this right after someone sent me pictures of the mutilated bodies of two young American Soldiers. Since the original posting, this letter has made a few laps around the net and been posted in many different places. Other than to my private email list, I originally posted it at Free Republic and it's been posted there several more times and to a Geocities Website that I once maintained. I've even received inquiries from people that heard it read on radio programs. There's been some minor editing of my original post as it's traveled around and I've seen it renamed several times. Frankly I prefer my title because my title is my point.
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