Admiral McJackass

by | Dec 2, 2019

What a tool.

Admiral McRaven’s NY Times oped – in which we hear that an anonymous Army general has said: ” ‘I don’t like the Democrats, but Trump is destroying the Republic!’ ”

McRaven explains which “republic” Trump is destroying:

“Those words echoed with me throughout the week. It is easy to destroy an organization if you have no appreciation for what makes that organization great. We are not the most powerful nation in the world because of our aircraft carriers, our economy, or our seat at the United Nations Security Council. We are the most powerful nation in the world because we try to be the good guys. We are the most powerful nation in the world because our ideals of universal freedom and equality have been backed up by our belief that we were champions of justice, the protectors of the less fortunate.”

How is Trump doing it?

“But, if we don’t care about our values, if we don’t care about duty and honor, if we don’t help the weak and stand up against oppression and injustice — what 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?”

I guess Trump gets a pass on Yemen, which anyway is apparently not worth mention in Admiral McRaven’s worldview.

About Zack Sorenson

Zachary Sorenson was a captain in the United States Air Force before quitting because of a principled opposition to war. He received a MBA from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan as class valedictorian. He also has a BA in Economics and a BS in Computer Science.

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