From left: Gen. John F. Kelly; Gen. James N. Mattis; Gen. Joseph F. Dunford; Gen. James F. Amos; CMC photographer. Sgt. Mallory S. VanderSchans; Gen. John R. Allen; Gen. John M. Paxton Jr., gather at the Home of the Commandants in Washington, D.C., April 19, 2013. | U.S. Marine Corps HQMC Combat Camera/Released
James Kitfield, Politico: Trump’s Generals Are Trying to Save the World. Starting With the White House.
The president has handed huge power to a group of military officers, and they’re out to solve two big problems: Obama's policies, and their boss.
By the end of last week, even President Donald Trump had apparently had enough of the self-inflicted chaos swirling around his White House. And the person he turned to fix it—instinctively, it seems—was a retired Marine Corps general.
John Kelly, out of uniform for just a year after retiring as head of U.S. Southern Command, has been running the Department of Homeland Security since January. He’s a straight-talking and sometimes blunt man whose accent suggests his working-class Boston roots, and he enjoys a salty joke. Sources say Trump was already in the habit of asking him for advice on how to make the White House run more smoothly.
Not since the early days of the Ford administration has a general served as White House chief of staff—and arguably not since the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, himself a retired general, have senior military officers wielded such influence at the top levels of an administration. Kelly forms a nexus of power with three other generals: Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a retired Marine general; Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Marine general; and national security adviser H.R. McMaster, still a uniformed lieutenant general in the Army — and a replacement for retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, who was fired after less than a month in the job.
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WNU Editor: President Trump was not elected because his supporters wanted an American empire .... he was elected because of his promise to focus on America .... not the world. These Generals appear to have a different agenda .... and while I do not know how long this relationship between President Trump and his Generals will last, it will probably come down to how they handle the wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
7 comments:
Military was so much ignored under Obama's administration. We need to have General's to fixed the damaged which was done, even on the civil part of the completely destroyed administration. After 8 year of a socialist and erratic policy under "stupid in chief" there a huge work to do. Trump will do no matter what the poll said. He is a man.
Yep
And the moon is made of green cheese
Correct, now the u.s has a chance of restoring faith in its ability to defend her intrests against threats bith fireign and domestic.
Whi else us better to build morale and instill loyalty and discipline in the whitehouse than a general?
LMFAO,
After 6 months, the only significant legislation Trumplstiltskin's been able to sign is the Russian Sanctions Act.
LMFAO
Not for a lack of trying, putin would be filling gulags if he was subjected to this crap
As a military man, I know military men, this is not a good idea, whats next letting the Banksters set up Banking regs, oh yea Clinton, Bush and Obama did that, but I digress. One of the great successes of of the Western Democracies is they kept policy in the hands of the civilian leadersship, countries that have handed power over to the military haven't done very well in the long run and it is also marks a decline in democracy as well. You wouldn't hire a Carpenter to build a hammer, you would get one shitty hammer, because that's not what the carpenter was trained for, whats next Canada will elect a drama teacher as Prime Minister or the US will elect a Community Organizer or an actor or a couple draft dodgers,or some rich guy with a TV show, oh God we are so fucked. To hell with it, let these have it, how much more can they screw it up.
Trump's chief of staff John Kelly has read this grim WWI novel after every promotion since age 25
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