solitude and leadership, Lt Col. Daniel L. Davis

In the article “The American Scholar” this quote was used “Does being a leader, I wondered, just mean being accomplished, being successful?” No it does not because what makes a leader is someone who knows how to lead people in a situation and stay calm at the same time. To be a leader you need courage, sacrifice, strength, etc. I believe that Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis is not the type a leader we need.

Yes, he has seen many things since enlisting into the army in 1985, but that does not mean he knows everything that is going on because we learn something new everyday that we didn’t know yesterday. I believe that people have a right to know when the war is going to end especially for people whose dad’s and son’s are serving in the army, but that does not mean let’s tell the whole world about what the military is doing behind our backs.

I think that if the military wanted us to know they would tell us or at least give an explanation as to why things are going so bad, but its not right to base our decision on what Lt. Col Daniel Davis says because to every story there are 2 sides and we have only heard one side of it. We may never know the reason for it keeping it a secret maybe they have good reason to and are just looking out for the citizen’s best interest at heart. As I always say, “ everything happens for a reason” even if we don’t know what that reason is yet.

Also in the article is says, “That the U.S. Army is a bureaucracy and one of the largest and most famously bureaucratic bureaucracies in the world.” Lt. Col Daniel Davis serves in the military he is a very good soldier and fights for what he believes in I’ll give him that, but I just don’t see why go through all the trouble of telling us these things that they army is doing when and in fact that he serves in the army that are supposedly doing all these bad things. If the army wanted us to know they would tell us what gives us the right to judge them when in fact right now they are out there fighting, and dying for us because they want what is best for us.

In the article it states that “Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things” I think this statement describes accurately what is going on around us. When there is a problem the middlemen or in our case the citizens are always stuck in the middle when we had nothing to do with it in the first place. Lt. Col Daniel Davis has the citizens best interest at heart but is it really his decision as to whether or not we should be told about these so called allegations against the United States Army.

So I believe that Lt. Col Daniel Davis is not a leader we need and I stick by with this that there is someone more better and more qualified to lead us.