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Retired top general joins Mattis dissent from Trump

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Retired top general joins Mattis dissent from Trump, warns of 'beginning of the end' for democracy if troops are used against protests.

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Allen, the former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said Trump’s halting Rose Garden speech in which he declared himself the “president of law and order,” the use of tear gas on protesters outside the White House and the church photo op that followed Monday was a “stunning” moment and potentially a pivotal one.

“Donald Trump expressed only the barest of condolences at the murder of George Floyd, but he also said nothing about the fundamental and underlying reasons for the unrest: systemic racism and inequality, a historic absence of respect, and a denial of justice,” Allen wrote. “Yes, he mentioned George Floyd, but he did not touch on long-standing societal problems at all. He sees the crisis as a black problem — not as something to be addressed by creating the basis and impetus for a move toward social justice, but as an opportunity to use force to portray himself as a ‘law and order’ president.
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Right on the heels of,
Republicans stand by Esper after public break with Trump
 
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There's been like 4 generals who've stood by Mattis plus the Secretary of Defense.


And you can watch as the Trumpites try to discredit them in the media. Disgraceful.

Trump is a threat to the Constitution.
 
Not even the military will stand by the Dictator-Wanna-Be. The only people sticking by his side are the kool-aid drinking Cultists and Loyalists. Willing to sell out the Republic for another tweet trolling the left. What cowards.
 
Aletheia said:
Retired top general joins Mattis dissent from Trump, warns of 'beginning of the end' for democracy if troops are used against protests.

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Allen, the former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said Trump’s halting Rose Garden speech in which he declared himself the “president of law and order,” the use of tear gas on protesters outside the White House and the church photo op that followed Monday was a “stunning” moment and potentially a pivotal one.

“Donald Trump expressed only the barest of condolences at the murder of George Floyd, but he also said nothing about the fundamental and underlying reasons for the unrest: systemic racism and inequality, a historic absence of respect, and a denial of justice,” Allen wrote. “Yes, he mentioned George Floyd, but he did not touch on long-standing societal problems at all. He sees the crisis as a black problem — not as something to be addressed by creating the basis and impetus for a move toward social justice, but as an opportunity to use force to portray himself as a ‘law and order’ president.
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Right on the heels of,
Republicans stand by Esper after public break with Trump
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Superb article. Thank you for posting this.

This was my favorite part of what retired General John Allen wrote:

To even the casual observer, Monday was awful for the United States and its democracy. The president’s speech was calculated to project his abject and arbitrary power, but he failed to project any of the higher emotions or leadership desperately needed in every quarter of this nation during this dire moment. And while Monday was truly horrific, no one should have been surprised. Indeed, the moment was clarifying in so many ways.
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I agree wholeheartedly.
 
W_Heisenberg said:
Superb article. Thank you for posting this.

This was my favorite part of what retired General John Allen wrote:



I agree wholeheartedly.
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Patriots agree. Traitors defend the actions of Trump. They want a King...well they want THEIR king. They'd hate it if Obama were King, and they'd then all of a sudden care about the rights and liberties of the People. You can't trust these two-faced fascists. All they want is THEIR power in control. There is no thought for the Republic, there is no thought for the rights and liberties of the Individual, there is no thought towards small and controlled government. Just THEIR control.
 
W_Heisenberg said:
Superb article. Thank you for posting this.

This was my favorite part of what retired General John Allen wrote:



I agree wholeheartedly.
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Yep. That last paragraph you quoted of Allen's is a great analysis of Trump's Monday Night PR op.
 
Ikari said:
Patriots agree. Traitors defend the actions of Trump. They want a King...well they want THEIR king. They'd hate it if Obama were King, and they'd then all of a sudden care about the rights and liberties of the People. You can't trust these two-faced fascists. All they want is THEIR power in control. There is no thought for the Republic, there is no thought for the rights and liberties of the Individual, there is no thought towards small and controlled government. Just THEIR control.
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Tough words, but I agree.
 
President Trump agreed on Thursday to begin sending home 82nd Airborne Division troops he had ordered to Washington, temporarily easing a contentious standoff with the Pentagon over the role of the armed forces in quelling protests that have broken out across the nation.

What appeared on Thursday to be an uneasy truce between the White House and Pentagon did not mean that the conflict was over. While Mr. Trump’s advisers counseled him not to fire Mr. Esper, the president spent much of the day privately railing about the defense secretary, who along with Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, opposed the president’s desire to send regular troops into the nation’s cities.
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This was a good moment for the military. The command leadership stood up to a man who wanted to use it for his political purposes and the military successfully resisted.

The leaders who stood up and were counted when it mattered, should be proud.
 
Chuck9788 said:
Why would Vladimir Putin be displeased with President Trump? The Russian collusion investigation was fraudulent and ridiculous.
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And global warming's a hoax right?

And voter fraud is a HUGE problem, right?

Tax cuts pay for themselves, and Republicans are big fiscal deficit hawks, right?
 
Sounds like some military commanders are close to resignations:

Senior Pentagon leaders are now so concerned about losing public support that General Milley released a message to top military commanders on Wednesday affirming that every member of the armed forces swears an oath to defend the Constitution, which he said “gives Americans the right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.”

The memo helped temper some of the unrest among retired officers. “It’s a start,” said James G. Stavridis, a retired admiral and NATO commander. “All of the service chiefs have also put out guidance against racial discrimination. I think it’s about as far as they can go in uniform without resignations.”

Kori Schake, the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a former national security aide to President George W. Bush, said Mr. Trump was corroding the professionalism of the military.

“The fact that so many active-duty officers and former officers are speaking up in support of the Constitution,” she said, “shows the damage this is doing to the covenant between the American people and the military.”​
 
Aletheia said:
“Donald Trump expressed only the barest of condolences at the murder of George Floyd, but he also said nothing about the fundamental and underlying reasons for the unrest: systemic racism and inequality, a historic absence of respect, and a denial of justice,” Allen wrote. “Yes, he mentioned George Floyd, but he did not touch on long-standing societal problems at all. He sees the crisis as a black problem — not as something to be addressed by creating the basis and impetus for a move toward social justice, but as an opportunity to use force to portray himself as a ‘law and order’ president.
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This reasoning doesn't address the issue of whether military force is necessary to protect Americans from being killed in mob riots

The judgment of whether to use military force needs to be based on public safety, not philosophies on race relations - that can be addressed immediately after we make sure that people aren't being killed in the streets
 
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