Obama said he wanted a civilian force as well armed as the military.
“Obama said he wanted a civilian force as well armed as the military.”
Socialist progressives may have indeed learned something from communism’s past failures, just not the lessons we’d like.
You see, The Spanish Civil War and Pinochet’s Chile have illustrated to far-left radicals that if they really want to bring about socialist revolution in a country that they’re going to have to take steps to ensure that the military is incapable of putting up effective resistance. Now they make sure they gut the military first, infiltrate it with ideological fellow travelers, and ensure that there is a politically “reliable” paramilitary of brownshirts to put down dissent.