Posted on 09/07/2020 9:15:04 PM PDT by RandFan
@rabrowne75
In an unprecedented public attack by a sitting US president on the leadership of the US military, President Trump has accused US military leaders of seeking to start wars to boost the profits of defense contractors
@rabrowne75
POTUS: “I'm not saying the military’s in love with me, the soldiers are, the top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs & make the planes & make everything else stay happy”
@rabrowne75
Some folks really ought to read what President Eisenhower actually said in his farewell address. While they are both critical of the military industrial complex, nowhere does Eisenhower actually accuse military leaders of engaging in shooting wars to boost profits for firms
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He’s NOT a “reporter”.
The is CNN after all.
He’s NOT a “reporter”.
This is CNN after all.
He is the “National security reporter” as per his twitter bio.
I dont want to editorialize and call him a propagandist because the Mods dont like that.
Eisenhower didn’t have to spell it out so even a CNN moron could understand what he meant. The adults at that time understood exactly what Eisenhower meant. And, Eisenhower meant exactly what President Trump stated.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.Just think how much of the fury over HCQ has been to prevent President Trump from getting a win and to make sure that only expensive patented drugs can be used for treatment rather than finding whether it works or not.In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
War Is A Racket
By Major General Smedley Butler
https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
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It would only be interesting that they weren’t upset with him.
They’re ravaged with hate, it has completely consumed them.
What's unprecedented is the entire media establishment seditiously trying to sow military dissent against a sitting President by quoting anonymous partisan sources. Ryan Browne and CNN are participating in a psychological warfare operation against the citizens of the United States. They and their accomplices should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
I agree it is a disgrace and part of a coordinated attack.
Also from his post he is suggesting liberals support war and the M.I.C (well, Biden does) the base not so happy with him and you can see it from the comments...
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CNN Reporter upset that President Trump [fill in the blank].
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Trump isn’t subtle.
“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” Robert E. Lee
“...many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman
“At night I see their faces. All the men I’ve killed. They’re standing there on the far bank of the river Styx. They’re waiting for me. They say, ‘Welcome, brother.’” Brad Pitt as Achilles, in Troy
Military men become drawn to war. Like a moth to a flame. Their thinking clouded by “duty, honor, country,” images of glory, loyalty to their comrades, especially those who have fallen in battle, and also by the doorway to fortune offered by military contractors.
One of the reasons for civilian control of the military is that we cannot allow their willingness to serve decide the matter. We must value them where they are willing to sacrifice themselves.
The “long war” the military imagined we were to fight in the Middle East has already longer lasted than it was supposed to last.
It was good to destroy the Taliban government in Kabul after 9-11, and we did that in short order. The idea of Bush, endorsed and followed through by Obama, of “reconstructing” Afghanistan was always a stupid idea.
As for Iraq, no, the world is not better off because we got rid of Saddam Hussein. That’s how messed up is the Middle East.
That passage also speaks to climate change hysteria.
Indeed.
Re: the Middle East and nation building, I read Natan Sharansky’s The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror soon after publication and bought into the argument it could be applied to Iraq and Afghanistan.
I came to realize that was completely incorrect, that Islam is completely antithetical to Democracy and Freedom, and no society whose people believe in Islam (which is a political system every bit as much as a religious one) will ever have Democracy and Freedom as understood in the West.
I don’t think Bush ever came to that understanding. He certainly never admitted it if he did.
We’re 15 years late decamping from the Afghanistan punitive expedition at this point. Never should have gone into Iraq.
Great post detailing a journey many have been on.
If anything Trump has been cleaning up the mess from the two previous admins and it’s a hell of a task. I give him high marks on Foreign Policy.
He has not started a new war or conflict..1st president in 30 odd years not to do so!
Biden would be a nightmare. He is totally owned by special interests and has voted for numerous wars etc. in the Senate.
However he gets a pass from the media so it’s a joke. Look for Trump to bring up Foreign Policy in the debates and make the liberals squirm over Joe’s vote for the Iraq war(s).
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