Lone Gunman -- you don't seem to understand some elements of what I (won't claim to presume for you) believe leadership means. I EXPECT them to be with the troops, drive moral, do the unexpected and generally slap backs. Would you prefer he spend a holiday safe and snug in a palace, up to his knees in champagne and caviar while the dogfaces that HE sent in harms way rot in some cesspool?
Your cynicism, healthy it may be, is undeserved on this one. Heck, I'd like to see him over there swaggering around with a flight suit on and ol' slabsides strapped to his hip. HOO-RAH!