I’m with Norman Schwarzkopf: you have a military to kill people and break things. That’s what they do. And it should be all they do, and they should be left alone to develop the means to do it as efficiently as possible.
“....you have a military to kill people and break things.”
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Perhaps this administration wants to make sure that the military that is left over after all the firings, is one willing to kill people and break anything American.