Washington Post: let's not staff a White House with generals again (Congress, Sanders)
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Generals belong at the Pentagon, period. I’ve been saying for years that I don’t like the politicizing of the General Staff. They should only come to the White House to advise, and get sent back to the Pentagon immediately. They shouldn’t be writing policy, or even proposing policy.
Any General working in the executive branch should immediately resign their commission. They shouldn’t be on active duty while running ANY federal agencies that aren’t a part of the Pentagons command structure.
And not just Generals.... all commissioned officers.
From the piece: "Kelly should be replaced by someone who actually understands democratic governance and can deliver bad news and honest criticism to the president."
Agree.
"Conventional wisdom has been telling us that Kelly has created a more disciplined and effective White House. He’s supposed to be taking his shifts for supervision of an erratic, irrational president. I don’t see it."
Me neither.
"Since Kelly’s arrival, Trump has ignited explosive cultural confrontations, failed again to repeal Obamacare and looked thoroughly hapless in his inability to articulate or stick to any position for more than an hour or so. Trump blusters and threatens North Korea; he alarms European allies by threatening to trash the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Trump under Kelly’s “day care” still has not filled a slew of top-level posts. Trump is not becoming more competent, more focused, more civil or more respectful of others under Kelly’s tutelage. In fact, he’s getting worse on all four counts. Kelly’s eagerness to defend the president’s unconscionable behavior and Kelly’s own lack of respect for civilian politicians simply feed Trump’s demons."
Agree with this assessment, quite sure there are others who see this as well.
Courage is needed & it's not being demonstrated by the creeping & creepy 'military authoritarians'. Question their authority.
There was a time when American people questioned whether our role was to be the 'policemen of the world', now we seem to have taken on the role as 'enforcers'. Who has benefited?
"It's tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
The damage that Trump is doing to the presidency may be irreparable. Not only has Trump totally undermined the moral authority of the presidency, he is the process of destroying its institutional authority.
Rubin's opinion that generals should be barred from serving in civilian capacity has merit if it is aimed by active generals and not retired generals. As I recall, Congress has a law that before a general can serve as Secretary of the DOD, he needed to be retired for five years.
Trump has ceded much authority to his appointed generals. Since Trump has NO concept of civilian control of the military and its importance to our republic, Trump is tearing it at the seams.
I can't honestly say who controls who in the Tumor administration. Does Trump control the generals or the generals Trump?
This should be a concern to everyone.
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The 'coup d'état' will not be televised.
