Dereliction of Duty by Robert PattersonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Close to Clinton while toting the nuclear "football", author Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson (Ret.) of the USAF gives an insider's account of Clinton the man - and Hillary the woman. It does not surprise me that Patterson has much to criticize in Clinton-directed military reduction as well as a reluctant military policy and lack of decisiveness. In this foreign policy opinion, this dovetails with In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century which is liberally excerpted in an appendix. Beside these opinions - probably resonant to many considering 9/11 and the follow-on War on Terror - I found most interesting the candid observations of the Clintons' characters. This adds to multiple opinions of Bill as a charismatic misogynist with a generally unprofessional approach to executive position and Hillary as abusive with both treating the military and other resources with a sense of entitlement. A new observation for me was spinning Hillary has a sharp-tongued shrew to Bill as a meek sufferer of her tirades.
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