“You hire them and you fire them.”
Social disintegration brought on by policies designed to divide rather than unite Soldiers and Marines looms as a real threat to American military power, a far more potent threat than anything Americans faced over the last 30 years. The current class of Army and Marine four star brains is wrong for the job of building for the future and cultivating cohesion.
President Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan has produced just the exposure the generals hoped to avoid with Trump's defeat.
Presidents usually get the generals they want. In the last election, though, the generals got the president they wanted. Or, at least, so they thought.
It’s easy to understand. President Trump was a menace to the generals, especially the four stars in the Army and the Marines. In sharp contrast to his predecessors in the White House, Trump declined to accept unconditionally the generals’ best military advice.
As far as Trump was concerned, the answers he received from his secretaries of Defense and the four stars concerning the need to stay in Afghanistan—to build democracy, liberate women, encircle Iran, keep China out and Russia at bay—did not pass the smell test. For Trump, neither the Russians nor the Chinese were ten feet tall, and Afghanistan’s security was never as important as the security of Rhode Island, Alabama, or Michigan.
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Two months after Secretary of State, Colin Powell, delivered a check for $43 million to the Afghanistan Taliban, the Bush/British royal family cabal did the 9-11 attacks and framed all middle eastern people, in particular the totally uninvolved Afghanistan, for it. The U.S. had expressed its gratitude to the Taliban during July 2001 for eradicating opium cultivation and sent them a package to carry out free and open elections. Unfortunately, the opium fields padded the coffers of the British royalty and their American cousin, George Herbert Walker Bush. The American sheeple frollicked while hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq were slaughtered under false pretenses, with Bush43 lying like a 5 year old psychotic brat. The British run(through Commonwealth Press Union affiliation) the Council on Foreign Relations American news programming, which most often is void of truth. The historical relationship between presidents and generals is a can of worms needing sorting and grading for quality control.