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Gen. John Allen, anti-ISIS envoy under Obama, rips Trump in Foreign Policy op-ed (barf alert)
Fox News ^ | June 03 2020 | Dom Calicchio

Posted on 06/04/2020 2:04:24 AM PDT by knighthawk

President Trump’s words and actions Monday – railing against “weak” governors and mayors, then holding a Bible outside a historic church near the White House – may have marked “the beginning of the end” of American democracy, a retired four-star Marine Corps general writes in an op-ed article.

“The slide of the United States into illiberalism may well have begun on June 1, 2020,” John Allen, who served as a special envoy for the global alliance against ISIS under former President Barack Obama and now heads the Brookings Institution think tank, writes in Foreign Policy magazine. “Remember the date. It may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment.”

Allen’s article appeared the same day that two other U.S. military figures – current Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis – also were publicly critical of the president.

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The deep state launches a full on assault
1 posted on 06/04/2020 2:04:24 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
John Allen, who served as a special envoy for the global alliance against ISIS under former President Barack Obama and now heads the Brookings Institution think tank,

Quit reading right there.

2 posted on 06/04/2020 2:11:01 AM PDT by SanchoP (We're passed the biological softening up and beginning the open warfare strategy. WAKE UP!!)
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To: knighthawk

Everything is being thrown at our President. Prayers being said for Our President, his family, and this country.


3 posted on 06/04/2020 2:11:32 AM PDT by LoveMyFreedom
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To: knighthawk

Meh who cares


4 posted on 06/04/2020 2:11:43 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: LoveMyFreedom
Everything is being thrown at our President. Prayers being said for Our President, his family, and this country.

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Yes EVERYTHING even trying to tear down WH gates and get to him. After all the assassination porn, and “Not My President” along with all the lies of Russia and Obama spying on his campaign and the lies about Ukraine, now they're threatening murder and mayhem until he's ran out of office and SOME who are supposedly on our side still feel the need to takes swipes right along with the terrorists.

5 posted on 06/04/2020 2:14:06 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: knighthawk

Yet another democrat general.

JoMa


6 posted on 06/04/2020 2:16:13 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: SanchoP
Quit reading right there.

You got it.

7 posted on 06/04/2020 2:19:28 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer, who graduated from Air Force pilot training, on 1 May 2020)
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To: knighthawk

How much is this election being influenced by Chinese and Iranian efforts to cause civil unrest in the USA?


8 posted on 06/04/2020 2:24:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: knighthawk

No WONDER we haven’t won ANY WARS in DECADES! Perfumed Democrat Princes...aka....GIRLY MEN!


9 posted on 06/04/2020 2:31:46 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: knighthawk

No, it was the beginning of the end of mob rule and media-induced frenzy.


10 posted on 06/04/2020 2:34:10 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: knighthawk

WHAAAAATTTTT??? If they’re so concerned, where in heck were they in 206 when Trump was hammering Constitutionalist Ted Cruz as a big, fat, Bible-waving liar???

This is like some sort of weird, military coup being performed through our “news” institutions.


11 posted on 06/04/2020 2:34:14 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: knighthawk

Sell outs working together.

Received offers they couldn’t refuse.

Big bucks in betrayal.

Joe Biden gets elected through vote by mail and these weasels will get nice titles, nice salaries and very large budgets to manage as they sell the American taxpayer down the river.

Remember, this bastard was “selected” by President Muslim who favored Islamic Rule over the US Constitution and caused absolute chaos in the Middle East. While this piece of shit decided which defense contractor would get what piece of the defense budget.

He didn’t like Lafayette Square? Too bad.

Nothing but a globalist willing to put us all in concentration camps.

It’s good these cockroaches are revealing themselves.


12 posted on 06/04/2020 2:36:25 AM PDT by Chuck N
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; knighthawk
2016, that is.
13 posted on 06/04/2020 2:37:18 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: knighthawk

Were a republic, not a democracy. It’s even in the Pledge of Allegiance you fool. (not you knighthawk)


14 posted on 06/04/2020 2:44:57 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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John Allen, who served as a special envoy for the global alliance against ISIS under former President Barack Obama

Explains why ISIS thrived so well under Obama.

15 posted on 06/04/2020 2:45:28 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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“Former President Barack Obama fired hundreds of pro-Constitution military leaders while installing hundreds of obedient globalist-leaning military “bureaucrats” into positions of influence within the Pentagon and various branches of the military.”

Unless someone knows different, one thing that really disappoints me about President Trump and the rebuilding of our military forces, is that Obama (who’s father was a Communist; mother was a Communist; mother’s parents who raised him were Communists. And the person who was his mentor while growing up, was a Communist.) for the 8 years that he held that office, had purged the military of many strong conservative patriotic Generals and high officers who were combat experienced warriors, and replaced them with Politically Correct, Social Justice Warrior, Liberal Democrats. I have not heard of Trump doing anything to purge the military of Obama’s Affirmative Action SJW replacements. The Navy, Army, and Air Force leadership are severely infected. Even the Marines are showing PC weaknesses.

If there is a New Civil War, Navy Seal Craig “Sawman” Sawyer said it will be very short. Why? “Because one side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets & the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.” But I don’t know. If Biden wins and the Leftists take this country, America will be destroyed. While some police and National Guard get on their knees in fealty to the rioters, are there any American military service branches that can be counted on to take this country back, such as the Elite Combat Special Forces, i.e. Marine Raiders, Navy Seals, Force Recon, Delta Force, Army Rangers, Green Berets, etc.??


16 posted on 06/04/2020 2:46:31 AM PDT by Main Street (Stuck in traffic.)
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To: Ann Archy

What I feel was our last “legitimate” war was World War II. Anything after that we shouldn’t have been in.


17 posted on 06/04/2020 2:48:22 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: knighthawk

Wowwy wow. Big news from the Faux fiends.


18 posted on 06/04/2020 2:50:56 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: SanchoP

So let me get this straight, using the IRS to harass and intimidate political opponents, using the FBI and our National Intelligence agencies to wiretap and spy on a political campaign is all okay. But going to a church which radical communists and anarchists tried to burn down the night before and holding up a Bible is the end of our democracy. This man is one sick individual.


19 posted on 06/04/2020 2:53:21 AM PDT by Federal46 (federal 46)
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This son of a bitch (despite his military record) is absolutely parroting the Obama/Black extremists propaganda lies against Pres. Trump.

How many jobs did the General get for struggling black workers? How many crimes against them by fellow blacks did he prevent or solve?

His bullshit about the US being a racist country shows why he’s not in the Pentagon today. His knowledge of the law is also abysmal.

Oh, did he defeat ISIS. Shit no! Did he oppose Obama’s appeasement and retreat policies re Iraq that allowed the growth of ISIS? Hell no.

Some general are good on the battlefield but suck in politics and on social issues.

Glad he’s not still in our Army. We would probably have Antifa running the Pentagon under his tutelage.

PS: My late father in law, a Lt. Col. (turned down a two grade jump to Brigadier because of his wife’s illness), was a combat veteran of the Pacific, starting at Pearl Harbor and ended with 3 Purple Hearts including IWO. Then became one of the top Counter Intelligence officers in the US Army against the Soviets/East Germans.

he would have fired Allen and Mattis yesterday, not just for insubordination, but for being butt stupid.

There is something to be said about the soldiers of “The Greatest Generation”. Patton was the best fighter. So was Buckner. They knew how to fight and who the enemy was. Mark Clark and some of the others were weak (i.e. Bradley) and didn’t know how to fight.

Mattis and Allen think that Trump is “the enemy”. Shows how degenerate our military leadership has become, esp. under Comrade Mullah Obama.

Trump not only has to fight ISIS, the Red Chinese, Russians, and regional communists, he has to fight fools and traitors right here at home, including the Democrat Party and Generals Mattis and Allen.

I think Trump is winning and as Gen. Mattis heard, “You’re fired”. The Secy of the Navy, a weak fish was “You’re fired” along with a couple other Obama squishes and light in the loafer officers. Maybe Esper is going to go bye-bye if he doesn’t shape up. I can live with that.

America needs fighters, not law illiterates advising the President.


20 posted on 06/04/2020 3:00:36 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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