Washington Post: Marine's court-martial highlights the military straining to deal with partisan politics
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - When a Marine officer who repeatedly disrespected senior officials in videos he posted online about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan took the stand in a military courtroom here Thursday, there were two versions of the man on trial.
First, there was Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, a combat veteran who, in defiance of tradition and direct orders, took to social media repeatedly to call out senior U.S. officials for their handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
This Scheller acknowledged that if he was going to call out others, he had to be held accountable for his own actions - willfully flouting military discipline.
"We have a lieutenant colonel who decided on his own it was appropriate to become the voice of change," said Lt. Col. Troy Campbell, a Marine Corps prosecutor. In repeatedly escalating his rhetoric, Scheller "quit on his command," Campbell alleged.
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WNU Editor: The Pentagon leadership has always been political. But what is different this time around (from my vantage point) is to see so many Colonels, Majors, and lower rank officers openly voicing their opposition to the leadership at the Pentagon and White House. The forced vaccine mandates is also not helping the situation.
What is also different this time around is the media's reaction to this opposition. A lot of negative reaction to Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller's criticism of the military leadership and the White House, the complete opposite to the treatment that Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman received when he targeted President Trump in 2020.
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Didn't Vindmann come out in favor of Schiller?
The problem is generals are blatantly political and they give up their authority based on military acumen. Presidents do not help, when they lack propriety.
It does not help when Congress, the president or the generals cannot tell you what the center of gravity is in a war. If they cannot, then they are there because of, who they know not what they know.
The military must purge the communists from their ranks if they hope to survive as an effective fighting force. Like Comrade Milley.
When the political power has not the military support, trouble are going to be close and close.
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