“We’re not some banana republic where lieutenant colonels get together and decide what the policy is or should be"

Yahoo News ^ | February 11, 2020 | Sean D. Naylor National Security Correspondent

[jerod]

Imagine some Lieutenant colonel dictating to any other President in history what America's policy should be with regards to a foreign government. Credible news organizations would ridicule and belittle such an individual... America's left wing media called this fool a hero... Their hero maybe.

[ClearCase_guy]

Just look at Ambassador Yovanovich’s statement today. She clearly thinks it is improper for the President to set foreign policy. That was her job.

[Jeff Chandler]

Imagine some Lieutenant colonel dictating to President Clinton what America’s policy should be with regards to a foreign government.

He would be on Clinton’s Dead Enemy’s list.

[Tallguy]

This is how Muammar Khadafy got started... as a Lt. Colonel who simply took over...

[Joe 6-pack]

LTC Terry Lakin went to jail simply for questioning the validity of an order.

[Tallguy]

She has even less cause to complain. Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president, period. The Vindman as army officers were simply filling a job. They’ll get thrown back into a temporary pool until either reassigned or retired.

[traderrob6]

Last I looked “insubordination” is legitimate cause to convene a general court martial.

[FLT-bird]

Trump should cashier all of the Obama appointees - military and civilian.

[Da Coyote]

Uh, it happened and was sanctioned by the most corrupt and inept administration in the country’s history.

Let’s make sure it does not happen again.
Democrats are the enemy.
Of the country.
Period.

[SERKIT]

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/19/vindman-was-asked-three-times-to-be-defense-minister-of-ukraine/

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Shoulda been done three years ago.

[max americana]

Funny. I thought we were a banana republic after what the military did to jfk.

[NativeSon]

Just imagine with what regard, she and the others holds the common citizen.

[HombreSecreto]

Or Article 134 UCMJ.

[Hoffer Rand]

And yet, congress threw the book at Ollie North, as though a Marine LTC was making policy about Iran Contra. At the time, my dad commented that anybody who truly believed North was the driving force behind those decisions had no clue how the military works.

[PGR88]

We don’t have any bananas.

We’ve got everything else.

[Beagle8U]

They both should be reassigned to some far-away turd-world $hit hole, far from any liberal media.

Let them dine on goat hoof soup until they retire.

[DakotaGator]

...even as President Trump seemed to indicate that the military would “look into” whether to take disciplinary action against the Army officer.

...

Nonetheless, O’Brien then seemed to suggest that the Vindman brothers were engaged in an effort to “dictate” policy to Trump.

"Investigative Journalism" at its finest.

[Eleutheria5]

Anyone whom the American Left regards as a hero probably isn’t. His heroic status becomes at least suspect.

[NorseViking]

Also known as mutiny and treason.