As near as I can tell, this article is NOT by Anthony Martin. :)
I have known COL (R) Benson for a number of years. He’s a very bright fellow who in his contractor hat works in the world known in military planning circles as “The Red Team”. Their job is to put their 100 pound brain to work positing what our enemies and potential enemies might do in order to cause great consternation amongst the good guy, “Blue Force” planners who have to come up with ways to tackle the bad guys.
That’s what he has done here to spark a much needed debate. But, he’s cut too close to the political bone and he has nicked a number of very sensitive nerves. Some in political circles are wondering aloud how they might harness the power and might of the military to work for their domestic political objectives. This debate needs to be out in the open so that notions of the use of military force against perceived threats to certain political factions can be quashed before anything is set in motion.
Benson is not the problem, he views this as an academic exercise. The problem lies to the East of the Missouri River, well East, on the banks of the Potomac.
LOL, well played.
I don’t care how much JimRob doesn’t like that guy, those threads should have been allowed to stand. This is an important subject. I saw two of those threads disappear, yours and Laz’s.
This country is toast. Only 22% of the people bothered to vote in the WA state elections yesterday even though the ballots are mailed home. Obama gives stand down orders for the occuturds but raises the flag against conservative tea partiers.
The problem with the right is that we are too passive. So passive that we are barely breathing. If the right actually stood firm, slap down liberalism, we wouldn’t have to worry about the threat from the government.
I think any U.S. Army officer willing to carry out such an order has no place in a free country.
If that officer is not justly killed for his acts by those he acts against he must be imprisoned for his treasonous war against theses united states(plural).
A local rebellion against a local government by the local people is a local matter. Washington does not exist to enforce & protect despotic governments.
Congress upon reflection may observe and reflect upon the changes if and only if the rebellion overturns the State government, or the State request aid in suppressing it.
Otherwise each and every “Solderer” that traitorously follows orders to attack Americans on american soil is guilty of a high crime and should be charged & punished.
This officer seems to think things would be all neat and tidy, with clear targets, in a small town.
He prefers not to consider millions of American’s across the country rebelling against the tyranny we see on the horizon.
He is also mistaken about the willingness of the military to fight their families and friends, on behalf of tyranny.
This officer seems to think things would be all neat and tidy, with clear targets, in a small town.
He prefers not to consider millions of Americans across the country rebelling against the tyranny we see on the horizon.
He is also mistaken about the willingness of the military to fight their families and friends, on behalf of tyranny.
Obama is getting scared.