President Trump's incredibly irresponsible comments (CNN on their fainting couch again)

Communist News Network ^ | October 6, 2017 | John Kirby

[E. Pluribus Unum]

(CNN) - President Trump made two comments Thursday in the company of his most senior military leaders. One was a rebuke. The other was a threat.

Both were incredibly irresponsible.

Let's set the stage a bit first. Every three months all the top US military commanders and service secretaries get together for an event they call the Senior Leaders Conference. They've been doing this since at least the days of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

It's an opportunity for the secretary of defense to lay out his vision, goals and objectives on issues that cut across many institutional lines. And the agenda is fairly tight as the group covers things like budget demands, contingency plans, and deployment operations.

[Enchante]

Quick, someone get John Kirby his pink pussy hat and smelling salts.... he is having another liberal fainting spell.

[Dennis M.]

If you want to loose weight by purging read the comments at CNN.

[proxy_user]

Nobody know what is really behind these remarks, do they? Trump may have discussed everything with the military leaders, and agreed on a particular bluffing strategy.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Trump basically told asked them, “How do you keep an asshole in suspense?”
And then he left them hanging. I don’t know if they will ever catch on.

[Bobalu]

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Yeah, Obama was so PRO MILITARY that you don’t want him asking for more options quicker in public.

Wouldn’t want Un or Iran getting the wrong idea.

CORPSEMAN, now THAT wasn’t just unwise, that was butt stupid CNN.

[snarkytart]

ew no thank you. I will not even give them clicks. I can’t read those comments it raises my blood pressure.

[RKV]

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan makes a joking but controversial off-the-cuff remark about bombing Russia while testing a microphone before a scheduled radio address. While warming up for the speech, Reagan said “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

[RKV]

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan makes a joking but controversial off-the-cuff remark about bombing Russia while testing a microphone before a scheduled radio address. While warming up for the speech, Reagan said “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

[jmacusa]

Yes, do hurry! I fear John Kirby has been overcome by the vapors!

[TigersEye]

Nothing quite as absurd as a lecture on responsibility from @FakeNews CNN.

[CaptainK]

For crying out loud, Mattis doesn't even like to talk openly about the numbers of troops he deploys to operational theaters, so worried is he that he might tip off the enemy. What sort of message does it send our adversaries when the President of the United States says he isn't getting military options fast enough?

But when Obama was telling countries the hour of the day we would be pull out our troops, CNN thought that was military genius.

[txnativegop]

hope he lands head-first on armor plate steel.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#2. You forgot to suggest that somebody get Kirby his pink dress. It goes along with his “liberal fainting spell”.

More boring than the old “Five O’clock Follies” at the Pentagon during the war.

[arthurus]

I spent Tuesday last in an all night talk, or more like a listen, with my son. He just finished a three week survival training gig at Fort Rucker on his way to being a helicopter or a fixed wing pilot. He was at least frazzled and showing signs of "PTSD." It is a pretty rough course, somewhere between my own pre VN course and the Seals. He couldn't talk about the course because that is largely Secret but he talked about the Army and why he took the opportunity to leave a soft motor pool job where he operated mostly a desk and fixed computer glitches and was an information resource for the actual turners of wrenches. He is an Afghan vet and has been in for 7 years. He says the morale problem is way worse than the hints in the press. The Obama changes have made it questionable whether the mighty US army could survive against a major threat and was getting weaker in the insurgency wars. As a sergeant he could no longer enforce orders to his men. He can tell a man to do something and if the man says screw yo I don't want to do it, all he can do about it is fill out a report. After three such reports the man might be transferred or the sergeant might get counseled to "lighten up." My son asks, "Do you want to be surrounded in Syria with these guys? You order three men to take out an enemy position and two of them say they won't go." The army fights as it trains and permitting that sort of indiscipline is effective training and the results of it will show up on the battlefield.

My son seemed to de-stress with talking, not directly about what he had just been through as that is all Secret, but about how he saw the army. He grabbed the opportunity to go to flight school as the reason to not quit the army. Pilots are still strictly merit and ability guys and no Obama BS.

Sorry if there are typos and errors. When I am very tired the prism in my glasses loses effect and I see everything in doubles. It is hard to keep track of what my fingers are doing.

[trebb]

Got their attention going in another direction - and they try to manipulate him.....Priceless!

[Wuli]

“He read this off a sheet of paper. So, clearly it was premeditated. But even if his complaint has merit — all presidents want more options — it was completely inappropriate for him to publicly rebuke his military leaders in this fashion.”

First off, the top officers are not snowflakes, so if they couldn’t take the heat of PUBLIC SCRUTINY of their business they would not be in their jobs. Secondly, they have in their roles become bureaucratic and managers of very cumbersome bureaucracies, bureaucracies that NEED to be shaken up. Third, what Trump did was useful and necessary. The top officers cannot now go back to their desks and let the bureaucracies continue to be lethargic and make bureaucratic excuses to the President, BECAUSE they are all on PUBLIC notice now.

As to Trump’s comment about the calm before the storm it was a statement with different meanings at different levels. To the generals it means that the world is a nasty place with more than enough potential powder kegs. They cannot rest on the fact that some of them have not exploded, yet; it may be merely the calm before the storm. Trump knew his statement would reach the media and be reported. To the world and its tyrants the statement was standard psychological warfare - you guys don’t know what we are up to. The generals understood what it meant to them, and the tyrants are left wondering what it means to them. A perfect twofer.

[Albion Wilde]

Oh, put a sock in it, John Kirby, you little snowflake.