Reply #: Why should he explain anything?

[tomfodw]

He's the king (in his own mind), he owes us nothing but the good fortune of admiring and worshipping him.

Seriously, he has never fully addressed this issue. It's as if, he wasn't really thinking of what he was going to do when, all of a sudden, he was offered a spot in the unit. He had no idea where it came from, as he'd never thought about it before, but was happy to take the totally unsolicited gift and didn't ask a single question about why him, why now?

He's been like that his entire life: good fortune comes his way and it never occurs to him even to consider that it's good fortune. He's not interested. He has no inner life. He will say anything that he thinks will impress others. I really think George W. Bush is what the psychologists and psychiatrists call a "borderline personality."