‘uniformed military is called upon to ‘dominate” – ?

“We must re­ject any think­ing of our cities as a ‘bat­tle­space’ that our uni­formed mil­i­tary is called upon to ‘dom­i­nate.’ At home, we should use our mil­i­tary only when re­quest­ed to do so, on very rare oc­ca­sions, by state gov­er­nors. Mil­i­ta­riz­ing our re­sponse, as we wit­nessed in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., sets up a con­flict – a false con­flict – be­tween the mil­i­tary and civil­ian so­ci­ety. It erodes the moral ground that en­sures a trust­ed bond be­tween men and women in uni­form and the so­ci­ety they are sworn to pro­tect, and of which they them­selves are a part. Keep­ing pub­lic or­der rests with civil­ian state and lo­cal lead­ers who best un­der­stand their com­mu­ni­ties and are an­swer­able to them.”
—James Mat­tis, for­mer U.S. Sec­re­tary of Defense

 

Four-star Ma­rine Gen­er­al Mat­tis now says Trump a threat to the US Con­sti­tu­tion – but I’m torn –

be­cause a foothills los­er that was in the Ma­rine Re­serves says Trump is “a su­per­pa­tri­ot whos been treat­ed unfairly.”

WHO TO BELIEVE!??

If you’re a ma­rine and your re­sponse to Mat­tis’ elo­quent, point­ed take­down of Trump is that he’s “dis­grun­tled” or a “RINO,” you are re­veal­ing what you re­al­ly think about the Ma­rine Corps and most damn­ing­ly the worth­less­ness of your own service.

If you re­al­ly be­lieve that a four star Ma­rine Gen­er­al can be swayed by pet­ty par­ti­san grudges, let alone work­place ones, you’re telling on your­self and your ab­solute lack of char­ac­ter and patriotism.

What is a Ma­rine then? What are you?

 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2020 Ja­son Malmberg.

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