Posted on 02/07/2018 6:34:25 AM PST by reaganaut1
Why?
This is a great idea and long over due. GO Trump! Go USA!
This bothers me. This is the kind of thing that the USSR used to do and NoKo still does. It’s a propaganda stunt — and at a time when our military needs to be rebuilt (both materially and by replacing Obama-era sycophant top brass), good Pentagon procedures and proper spending would be a much better thing to do.
Because we take the good with the bad.
Always remember, we could have: "With all that being said, why am I not ahead by 50 points, you might ask...."
You folks disappoint me. I say do it! I’ll fly there to see it. Have a special formation for Vietnam Vets. All done in 2 hours. Precision. A message to the world. Let’s party!
Everybody loves a parade.
it will be a grand parade, a focal point of American patriotism and America’s military strength and deliver the message to the world that American does have a substantial armed forces.
However, the parade should not be held on July 4th but rather Flag Day, June 14th which also happens to be President Trump’s Birthday.
Free Republic is infested with globalist Free Traitors. They don’t get nationalism because they are creeps.
I like the idea, we used to have Military parades till the PC crowd took over..besides look at all the excitement there would be if the homeless or Black Lives matter ran out in front of the Tanks...
Note that the DPRK, Indian, Russian parades, like the Wagah border farce, are parodies of of military power. What, we are going to piss away money to paint whitewalls and pinstripes on M-1 Abrams, and spray them with diesel, to make them shiny?
It's stupid.
A number of 1st World countries do something rather similar. You should see the Fleet Reviews of the UK and the Commonwealth.
“This is perhaps the one that France does that we should imitate.”
I wanted to join the Foreign Legion when I was in high school. But, I couldn’t afford a ticket to Paris and my parents asked, “What’s wrong with the Marine Corps?”
I say “do it,” too. One time show to HONOR our military, not Trump. Not showing off our prowess, but showing off our respect for guys (and gals) who for 8 long years were shoved to the wilderness, given fatally flawed Rules of Engagement, and who obeyed in silence, sometimes with their lives.
I think Trump the showman, can make an event we all can take pride in and will withstand the treasonous press and dimorat harping.
That’s because they prefer gay pride parades.
You’re stupid. Creep. I guess you’d prefer a Gay Pride parade.
I completely agree. With rare exceptions big military parades are not a part of our country’s cultural history. Parades celebrating the end of major wars have been an exception, but otherwise this is the sort of thing typically associated with despots. And it is bad optics, which means it is also bad politics.
Flying tanks? Rewrite!
Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll surround the Capitol building.
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