{"id":116601,"date":"2017-08-17T15:21:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T23:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=116601"},"modified":"2017-08-17T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T23:23:01","slug":"haaretz-army-brass-know-that-if-every-black-soldier-quit-in-protest-over-donald-trumps-comments-the-u-s-military-would-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=116601","title":{"rendered":"Haaretz: ‘Army brass know that if every black soldier quit in protest over Donald Trump\u2019s comments, the U.S. military would collapse’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stunning insights from Amir Oren<\/a>: When you combine 19th Century Man and 21st-century powers, you get U.S. President Donald Trump. And when you refuse to accept Trump, you get the most amazing phenomenon of the week: the public stand of the Joint Chiefs of Staff against their commander in chief.
\nThis is unprecedented in U.S. history. Never before have the generals and admirals been so united. There was a \u201crevolt of the admirals\u201d against the reduction of naval forces over air force bombers; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff worked together against Chairman Colin Powell and President George H.W. Bush on the issue of tactical nuclear weapons in the ground forces.
\nBut there is no precedent for this united front, a calculated incitement against the president who is capable \u2013 legally and temperamentally \u2013 of dismissing them all, even if it also means the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
\nTweets instead of obedience: that\u2019s what Trump received from the chiefs of staff of U.S. Naval Operations, the Marine Corps, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force, along with the head of the National Guard this week.
\nIt\u2019s all the fault of the Bavarians, of course. They deported Trump\u2019s grandfather, Friedrich, back to the country to which he had immigrated when they discovered he hadn\u2019t done his military service. Had the grandfather not returned to America, the Trumps would have remained in Germany. It\u2019s fascinating to wonder with whom they would have identified during Hitler\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n

…The U.S. military would collapse if black soldiers were to leave tomorrow in protest at tacit support for racists by their commander in chief: They comprise one in five in the ground forces; one in six in the Air Force and U.S. Navy; and one in 10 in the Marines. The military command cannot permit such a rift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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