Posted on 10/18/2019 6:53:57 AM PDT by Magnatron
Retired Admiral William McRaven has published an op-ed in Friday’s New York Times titled, “Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President,” urging that Trump be removed from office — “the sooner, the better.”
McRaven’s op-ed gives a military imprimatur to what President Donald Trump has already likened to a “coup,” as Democrats attempt to impeach him with barely a year to go before the next presidential election.
The admiral, well-respected for his role in overseeing the operation to kill Al Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden in 2011, argues that senior military leaders have lost confidence in the president and feel he is a threat to the nation.
“As I stood on the parade field at Fort Bragg,” McRaven recalled, “one retired four-star general, grabbed my arm, shook me and shouted, ‘I don’t like the Democrats, but Trump is destroying the Republic!’”
McRaven does not argue that President Trump has done anything wrong in particular, but that he has no respect for America’s values. These values, McRaven declares, involve a commitment to “help the weak and stand up against oppression and injustice” around the world.
“[W]hat will happen to the Kurds, the Iraqis, the Afghans, the Syrians, the Rohingyas, the South Sudanese and the millions of people under the boot of tyranny or left abandoned by their failing states?” McRaven asks, without explicitly calling for military intervention in any of the regions mentioned.
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“[W]hat will happen to the Kurds, the Iraqis, the Afghans, the Syrians, the Rohingyas, the South Sudanese and the millions of people under the boot of tyranny or left abandoned by their failing states?” McRaven asks, without explicitly calling for military intervention in any of the regions mentioned.
What will happen to them? They aren't American citizens. We have no resources, wealth, or labor to gain from any of these people. Why should we send our children to die for their choices? Are we the only nation on earth? Why -- if this is such a catastrophe -- are the other countries of the world not just as responsible as we supposedly are?
Trump is right. This is truly a coup, nothing else.
McRaven has proven himself to be a disgrace to his uniform.
What a scumbag.
“McRaven” ... the name says all I need to know. The military mind is a hammer and everything looks like a nail.
senior military leaders have lost confidence in the president and feel he is a threat to the nation
Grounds for Extraordinary Rendition and Water Boarding to find the rest of the Coup Plotters.
Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice bars “contemptuous words against the President,” and applies to retired members of the armed forces entitled to pay.
McRaven's comments are beyond the pall of contempt. He needs to be made an example of.
You have to be a special leftist to be chancellor of the University of Texas System. No true conservatives allowed. He has to be against Trump or they will drum him out of his cushy job.
“As I stood on the parade field at Fort Bragg,” McRaven recalled, “one retired four-star general, grabbed my arm, shook me and shouted, ‘I don’t like the Democrats, but Trump is destroying the Republic!’”
“He’s jeopardizing my defense contractor lobbying check!”
Generals and Majors always seem so unhappy unless they got a war.
The Dems are gonna be pulling jagoffs like this out of the woodwork right up to election day (and beyond, cuz Trump’s gonna win re-election!)...
When you have a military with to many Admirals and Generals...
The military should not be a peace keeping force
Trump was right when he said we have no Pattons,,,
“help the weak and stand up against oppression and injustice” around the world
Only in a liberal’s mind are these American Values.
When this guy says "America's values" he means that we need to be the world's policeman and invade as many countries as possible.
Generals in favor of perpetual war, surprise, surprise.
An unkindness. A gathering of ravens.
The Navy has more admirals that we have ships.
Quoth McRaven: “Nevermore”.
Orange man bad argument. He very bad.
McRaven was considered a disgrace while in uniform. 2 sides of the US Military. The Warriors and the Politicos. People like Colin Powell, McRaven, Weasly Clark got there ranks by playing politics not because of superior performance.
Correction, he isn’t chancellor any longer.
He IS a brennan fan and his BS is in journalism. Gosh, who would have thought.
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