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‘You’re a bunch of dopes and babies’: Inside Trump’s stunning tirade against generals
Washington Compost ^ | Jan 17, 2020 | Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker

Posted on 01/17/2020 10:21:09 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

There is no more sacred room for military officers than 2E924 of the Pentagon, a windowless and secure vault where the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet regularly to wrestle with classified matters. Its more common name is “the Tank.” The Tank resembles a small corporate boardroom, with a gleaming golden oak table, leather swivel armchairs and other mid-century stylings. Inside its walls, flag officers observe a reverence and decorum for the wrenching decisions that have been made there.

Hanging prominently on one of the walls is The Peacemakers, a painting that depicts an 1865 Civil War strategy session with President Abraham Lincoln and his three service chiefs — Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, and Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter. One hundred fifty-​­two years after Lincoln hatched plans to preserve the Union, President Trump’s advisers staged an intervention inside the Tank to try to preserve the world order....

Trump organized his unorthodox worldview under the simplistic banner of “America First,” but Mattis, Tillerson, and Cohn feared his proposals were rash, barely considered, and a danger to America’s superpower standing. They also felt that many of Trump’s impulsive ideas stemmed from his lack of familiarity with U.S. history and, even, where countries were located. To have a useful discussion with him, the trio agreed, they had to create a basic knowledge, a shared language....

“You’re all losers,” Trump said. “You don’t know how to win anymore.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
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To: Alberta's Child

Thank you.


61 posted on 01/17/2020 10:56:00 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Obama hijacked the US military for the left. Now the left hates Russia, loves the military, the FBI and the intelligence services. My how times have changed....


62 posted on 01/17/2020 10:56:47 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: wbarmy
Personally, as far as the Middle East is concerned, take our troops out and give Israel a whole bunch of the best weapons we have. Let them take out the trash.
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Maybe give them some top cover, but otherwise, it is their neighborhood, they can be the policeman.

I'm beginning to lean that way.

63 posted on 01/17/2020 10:57:34 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: wbarmy

+1


64 posted on 01/17/2020 11:01:32 AM PST by 4Liberty (Impeached, for a retort about Rosie's unhealthy weight. Why not for Obama's "Special Olympics" slur?)
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To: laconic
"Daddy Bush got him out of war duty; he ended up in the Alabama National Guard where he couldn’t be troubled to attend monthly meetings.

Yes, I remember something about GWB helping with a deferral of some kind. And yes, it was Alabama NG. My mistake.

However, you are channeling Dan Rather and his fraudulent memo that was busted right here on FR. The truth was that the aircraft W flew was obsolete and being de-commissioned. W formally asked if he could skip his last meetings which was approved by his commanding officer.

W was at the end of his officer commission, and the C.O. figured it wouldn't be cost effective to train him on another aircraft and just let W go. There were documents to substantiate that. Plus, IIRC, W asked for duty in Viet Nam while still flying.

65 posted on 01/17/2020 11:02:05 AM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

A LOT of the real patriots were purged by Obamatard in the first 4 years and replaced by limp-wristed SWJ fag-loving officers..

If Patton were around he would say the same and literally beat the sh*t out of them.


66 posted on 01/17/2020 11:02:08 AM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: marron
The main culprit in giving Iran the $150 billion and being so soft on Iran and Mideast terrorism in the Obama administration was Valerie Jarrett. That reptilian looking bitch was Obama's closest confidant.
67 posted on 01/17/2020 11:03:22 AM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: Alberta's Child

Not all the officers are globalists or Obama holdovers. Some are who have managed to hold on by being good performers. What you are seeing in this piece like you have seen with others like the GAO report which is false information overblown. Expect more of this and take it with a grain of salt


68 posted on 01/17/2020 11:03:30 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Leep
How is us spending endless tons of money and many lives in Afghanistan keeping us safer?

I have a hard time not agreeing with POTUS despite wondering about the source for the info in this article.

69 posted on 01/17/2020 11:03:44 AM PST by Aria
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To: jeffc

see my last post. president Jarjar purged the officer corps in the first 2 years.

That’s why Lincoln had warmongers like Sherman who had no problem annihilating the enemy and burning down cities. What needs to be done he did with gusto..


70 posted on 01/17/2020 11:03:53 AM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: laconic

Fake post

Dogmatic Bush bash drivel


71 posted on 01/17/2020 11:05:35 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: clarissaexplainsitall

“It strikes me that the people who write these articles have never had a job where the boss yells at people”

Exactly. What a weak ass generation and race these libtards..I’ve been yelled at by teachers and bosses, and ESPECIALLY when I was an intern here in Hollywood.
I made sure not to treat our interns like sh*t because one day, they may make it big and return the crap I gave them.


72 posted on 01/17/2020 11:05:56 AM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: bgill

Well, they DID defeat the Iraqi Army in three weeks, as a superpower army should have been able to, given the level of military competence of the adversary.

But they were then forced into an untenable mission of “nation building” by an addled C-in-C, managed by the very sort of “woke” intersectionalist flag officers that Trump is railing against.


73 posted on 01/17/2020 11:06:20 AM PST by DMZFrank
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To: Magnum44
That said,sometime situations are such that you cant win militarily but you CAN lose.

Good point.

74 posted on 01/17/2020 11:06:45 AM PST by marron
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To: goldstategop

“He doesn’t care much for process. He wants results.”

Bingo. You know that line in Ghostbusters? “He works in the private sector..they demand results”.


75 posted on 01/17/2020 11:06:47 AM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: Williams
The behavior of his supposed subordinates to try to educate him to become a globalist was ridiculous. The president is not asking our soldiers to become soldiers of fortune or mercenaries to “make a buck”. He is insisting that the fortune and lives of Americans not be wasted on foreign soil doing other countries work for them.

👍

76 posted on 01/17/2020 11:07:58 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything yo have. Don't wait do it today.)
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To: A Navy Vet

The most hazardous military occupation in peacetime is flying high performance military aircraft.

Particularly a temperamental interceptor like the F-102 which Bush flew, which had a relatively high accident rate.


77 posted on 01/17/2020 11:10:35 AM PST by DMZFrank
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Trump organized his unorthodox worldview under the simplistic banner of “America First,” but Mattis, Tillerson, and Cohn...

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How many years has it been since Rex Tillerson was fired? Why is this “news” in 2020?


78 posted on 01/17/2020 11:10:54 AM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Anyone here think that excising the deep state would be easy?


79 posted on 01/17/2020 11:10:57 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Flag officer or fag officer, not much of a difference thanks to Obama.


80 posted on 01/17/2020 11:12:31 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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