Posted on 11/26/2019 2:10:11 PM PST by EyesOfTX
Dear Mr. Spencer: Knowing when to shut up is a wonderful life skill. You should acquire it. – In an interview with CBS News released on Tuesday, fired ex-Navy Secretary Richard Spencer took several shots at President Donald Trump, and otherwise basically let the door hit him in the ass on his way out:
“I don’t think he really understands the definition of a warfighter,” Spencer said. “A warfighter is a profession of arms. And a profession of arms has standards that they have to be held to, and they hold themselves to.”
Spencer added that Trump’s intervention “erodes” trust in the U.S. military and the principles, like “good order and discipline,” on which the U.S. military stands. He told CBS News that Trump’s actions also send a dark message to U.S. troops: “That you can get away with things.”
One “standard” that any “warfighter” must learn to hold himself to is a respect for the chain of command. At the top of that chain of command sits the “Commander-in-Chief,” or as he is otherwise known, the President of the United States. That person today happens to be Donald J. Trump.
President Trump issued a pardon to Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher and ordered his rank restored after he had been wrongly convicted – in the President’s view – by a very abusive and corrupt court martial process. Spencer chose to defy that pardon by then convening a review board designed to further persecute Gallagher. He further defied the President by refusing to disband that review board after the Commander-in-Chief had ordered him to do so in a tweet last week, resorting to the utterly laughable claim that a tweet does not amount to a “formal order.”
As for Spencer’s absurd statement that the President’s pardon of Gallagher and restoration of his rank sends a “dark message” to other troops “that you can get away with things,” what exactly is Gallagher supposedly getting away with?
Remember, after that long and abusive court martial process, Gallagher was convicted of the “crime” of posing for a photo with the body of a dead terrorist. He didn’t deface the body, didn’t steal anything from it, just posed for a photo with the body of a terrorist who he was sent to the Middle East by his country to kill.
Rather than being punished for that photo, the Navy should have hung it on the wall in the lobby of the Pentagon with the caption, “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.”
The same sentiment is an appropriate description of the firing of Richard Spencer: Getting jackasses like him out of our government is why Donald Trump was elected in the first place.
That is all.
Proof yet again that once these “officers” become perfumed princes on the Beltway, they also become flaming idiots...and not Officers that are respected by their subordinates!!
Spencer demonstrates the good judgement to fire his a$$.
Right on....from a Navy vet.
Spencer is an Obama supporter.
When Obama changed the rules of engagement for the military in 2008 the suicide rate in the military more than tripled as soldiers felt helpless to protect themselves.
Thanks for that. I was having a debate with someone on this. Thanks.
Really tire of these politicians pretending to be military/police/journalists etc.
Politicians are the thinnest skin class of people absolutely incapable of ever admitting error. Trump fixed a screw up and rather then quietly thank him for taking them off the hook, the military politicians chose to go down in flames over it.
He was stupid enough to challenge a battleship with a rowboat, I don’t want him anywhere near OUR Navy!
Dick, the only purpose of the military is to kill people and break things.
The fact that you are unaware of that makes you unfit for command.
Please help me understand why Trump hired him. Spencer was affiliated with an organization whose CEO was Victoria Nuland. Her husband is Anti Trump Robert Kagan. Trump appoints Spencer to be SECNAV!!!
Former State Department official Victoria Nuland, who reportedly connected FBI officials to the former British spy who wrote the infamous anti-Trump dossier.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/15/victoria-nuland-linked-anti-trump-dossier-testify/
According to the book “Russian Roulette,” she played an instrumental role in the evolution of Christopher Steele’s negative campaign research on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 by giving permission for an FBI agent in London to meet with the former U.K. intelligence officer.
“Russian Roulette” was published earlier this year and written by veteran Washington media figures, Yahoo News reporter Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones magazine’s David Corn.
Have the person read UCMJ Section 88
You don’t have to like a legal order, you don’t have to like the person giving the order, you do have to obey.
The Military is different then society at large, you sign away some of your 1st Amendment Rights when you choose to serve.
““I don’t think he really understands the definition of a warfighter,” Spencer said”
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Even a non-military dude like myself knows what a true “warfighter” is. It’s Gallagher. Not a paper-pusher leftwing puke appointed by Obamatard like yourself..
Spencer was also an adviser to the Washington think tank Center for a New American Security.
The administration of President Barack Obama hired several CNAS employees for key jobs. Founders Michèle Flournoy and Kurt Campbell formerly served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, respectively. In June 2009 The Washington Post suggested, “In the era of Obama... the Center for a New American Security may emerge as Washington’s go-to think tank on military affairs.” CNAS scholars have included John Nagl, David Kilcullen, Andrew Exum, Thomas E. Ricks, Robert D. Kaplan, and Marc Lynch. CNAS is led by CEO Victoria Nuland, who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs under Secretary of State John Kerry.
CNAS is relatively small, with around 30 employees and a budget under $6 million. Among the organizations top donors include Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Open Society Foundation, Airbus Group, The Boeing Company, Chevron Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Raytheon Company, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, the United States government, BAE Systems, BP America and Exxon Mobil Corporation.
In a speech to the United States Military Academy at West Point on February 25, 2011, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates quoted CNAS President John Nagl and Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow Lieutenant General David Barno, USA (Ret.) for their recommendations on improving promotion policies in the military.
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Please note:
“Among the organizations top donors include .........., Open Society Foundation
He obviously never learned the good discipline he requires of others. He never learned to keep his mouth shut when he should.
Spencer must be one of those “transformative appointees,” put in by Obama? His task? Weaponize the service against those who enlist.
Spencer is DEEP STATE.
Per Wiki:
The CNAS was led by CEO Victoria Nuland, who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs under Secretary of State John Kerry.
Her husband Robert Kagan who in February 2016 publicly left the Republican party (referring to himself as a “former Republican”) and endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton for president and argued that the Republican Party’s “wild obstructionism” and an insistence that “government, institutions, political traditions, party leadership and even parties themselves” were things meant to be “overthrown, evaded, ignored, insulted, laughed at” set the stage for the rise of Donald Trump.
Kagan called Trump a “Frankenstein monster” and also compared him to Napoleon.[46] In May 2016, Kagan wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post regarding Trump’s campaign entitled “This Is How Fascism Comes to America”. Kagan has said that “all Republican foreign policy professionals are anti-Trump.”
On the other hand, it might send a message to the enemy:
Our guys can probably get away with things. . . .
Trump is a far cry from the evil POS Obama who would not permit the troops to return fire without permission. I have a relative who fought in Afghanistan who monitored surveillance drones. One night they caught some guys planting a IED in a rural road far from any settlements. They were denied permission by their command to take them out even though there was armed air power close at hand.
Fire all the brass that Obama promoted and bring back the ones he relieved. Obama got EVERYTHING backwards, especially as it relates to national security and foreign policy
“Spencer added that Trump’s intervention “erodes” trust in the U.S. military and the principles, like “good order and discipline,” on which the U.S. military stands.”
I think that Spencer publicly opposing the Commander in Chief does more to erode trust in the military as well as good order and discipline. What would Spencer do if a Captain publicly spoke out against him and refused to carry out an order. Would he let that guy get away with that kind of insubordination? I doubt it.
Washington is a mess with these pukes. When did this counterintelligence squad of interagency bureaucratic overlords begin it's shadow government nonsense?
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