Posted on 03/23/2023 10:03:32 PM PDT by Pol-92064
As a young military officer at the height of the war on terror, Lt. Ron DeSantis was often seen running on the beach of Guantánamo Bay and along its ridgeline, encircling Camp America. It was a chaotic time at the U.S. military detention facility in Cuba, and as an ambitious Navy lawyer, DeSantis was positioned to witness history up close. He arrived at Joint Task Force Guantanamo in the spring of 2006 as its leaders were grappling with multiple challenges and global scrutiny. Aggressive tactics were adopted to break a hunger strike. An armed clash erupted between detainees and a riot squad in May. Three men were found dead in their cells in the same hour of a single night in June. And the CIA would transfer some of its highest-value detainees to the camp in the fall of that year. DeSantis had little authority to address these crises as a 27-year-old lieutenant at a notorious facility micromanaged from Washington. But it was a formative period for a career-minded officer who had enlisted hoping for a deployment to Guantánamo Bay, where he would come face to face with the realities of America’s least conventional war.
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Sorry, Desanctimonious ain’t passing the smell test. Got the DS stink all over him.
By the time the Dems get through with him, half the country will be convinced that Ron DeSantis ordered the Code Red of Private William Santiago.
Yup. Not my guy. Him saying zippo about the ny soros da witchhunt sealed the deal.
>> DeSantis had little authority to address these crises as a 27-year-old lieutenant...
No authority. No accountability. So he just watched.
Take that in... he *watched* some history unfolding, did NOTHING to affect it, and now he’s qualified to lead the nation.
Seriously?
““Many of the very big leadership, if they want to be harsh, it’s hard from the lower people to take a different turn. He aligned with the bad people in the end.”
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Just like he will align with the Deep State in the end if elected. I’ve got this guy’s number he’s no MAGA that’s for sure. And he’ unlucky to win the general election anyway. He’s just the great white hope of the anti-Trumpers.
The GOP, Ryan and Fox like him. And the week that the communists have Trump in the crosshairs for arrest, he lines up to kick him with snide remarks.
This was a week where everyone should have been a solid front against the communists.
Showed his true colors. And sorry, despite the puff piece, he was a Jag lawyer. That’s -barely- military.
Also Yale is a serious black mark.
Man, the fix must really be in, for the left and deep swamp rinos to want Jeb2.0 to be the republican presidential candidate....
Because the herald has a history of constant attacks on desantis and his policies.
My Hero!
At great risk, every day of getting a mortal paper-cut.
Next they will be telling us how he went on to being Commander of Notary Seal Team Six
If the people of florida like him, than please keep him.
My big issue on DeSantis is that he professional politician. He has worked in government his whole life, from being a JAG out of law school, to present.
If he pisses off the Deep State, where will he go after a presidential term?what would he do afterwards? Is some university likely to offer him a dean position to retire into?
He became friendly with the prisoners, learned their weaknesses and advised the interrogators on how to handle them
Not necessarily a good piece on DeSantis.l Lots of undocumented innuendos about him doing things or not doing things from real and possible Islamic terrorists who were told how to bring war crimes charges against American forces.
Look at how the American media covered up the real and reported torture and murders committed by VC officer Bay
Lop during the Tet Offensive in Saigon in 1968, SVN. There was a recent article published on who he really was and what he did. Lol was executed by Gen. Loan as seen in Adams famous Life magazine photo montage.
Left out was the full story of this VC killer and what he reportedly did.
Remember the fake “crippled crab-legged” So. Vietnamese people who claimed to have been crippled in Con Son prison or by the Saigon police. All communists or sympathizers. Con Son prison story was also fake as exposed by a Rep. Phil Crane (R - I’ll).
Tom Harkin, a fake Vietnam veteran, later a Democrat senator from Iowa, was in on the hoax with pro Hanoi activist Don Luce.
Lesson to keep in mind. Never trust a communist or Islamic jihadist to tell the truth. Their ideology teaches them that they can lie to and about their enemies.
We want the guilty to pay for their crimes so I have no opposition to getting the innocent freed.
Don’t
This is a DS article attacking him
At least he served his country unlike traitor bone spur trump. How embarrassing to screw over your country.
So is university of Pennsylvania which is even more liberal.
Doesn’t matter who the Republican nominee will be. They would all be Trump in the deranged minds of the left and will be treated as such.
Trump is attracting all the flak right now. How would DeSantis do without Trump running point?
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