Joshua S. Treviño confronts the Internet.

"[O]ne of the most extremist right-wing militants in America," says one of the Glenn Greenwalds.

"A brainy communications director," says The Weekly Standard.

"My favorite campaign spokesman EVER," says Doug Sovern.

"Very literate," says Michael Barone.

Command ethic.

“In 1960, [General William] Westmoreland had become superintendent of West Point, where he was perhaps best remembered for rejecting a plan to hire Vince Lombardi to coach the academy’s football team. ‘Lombardi was too tough, too obsessed with winning, and he had slapped around a cadet while he had been Red Blaik’s assistant,’ Westmoreland told his friend and subordinate Gen. Phillip Davidson. ‘This was not the kind of man I wanted around cadets.’”

— From The Generals, Thomas Ricks, 2012. Emphasis mine.

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