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Gen. John Allen, anti-ISIS envoy under Obama, rips Trump in Foreign Policy op-ed (barf alert)
Fox News ^ | June 03 2020 | Dom Calicchio

Posted on 06/04/2020 2:04:24 AM PDT by knighthawk

President Trump’s words and actions Monday – railing against “weak” governors and mayors, then holding a Bible outside a historic church near the White House – may have marked “the beginning of the end” of American democracy, a retired four-star Marine Corps general writes in an op-ed article.

“The slide of the United States into illiberalism may well have begun on June 1, 2020,” John Allen, who served as a special envoy for the global alliance against ISIS under former President Barack Obama and now heads the Brookings Institution think tank, writes in Foreign Policy magazine. “Remember the date. It may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment.”

Allen’s article appeared the same day that two other U.S. military figures – current Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis – also were publicly critical of the president.

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To: knighthawk

The fallen plight of black culture and community in this country; black abortion, fatherless families, prison numbers, drug addiction, random shootings is not the fault of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has done more for blacks in this country than any other President privious. He didn’t create this catastrophe some call black community.


21 posted on 06/04/2020 3:05:24 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: SanchoP

A JV type “General”


22 posted on 06/04/2020 3:15:58 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Open up America! Enough! COMMUNISM was and IS the problem Boycott China)
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To: Main Street

Count on none of them... just because an individual in a SOCOM unit does not mean they see it as you... lots of SEALS are liberal Democrats...


23 posted on 06/04/2020 3:23:25 AM PDT by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: knighthawk

Mattis claims 50 years of military service. He can’t recall
67 and 68. The 82nd and 101 in 67-68.


24 posted on 06/04/2020 3:34:38 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and their AFGE union insurance)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Are these generals flapping their gums and waving their pens trying to encourage a military coup?


25 posted on 06/04/2020 3:37:27 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Drop our prez a brief note.


26 posted on 06/04/2020 3:51:00 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
America needs fighters, not law illiterates advising the President.

There's a few fighters around but DC's gonna have to be cleaned out first. We're facing a new kind of warfare. The next stage is gonna be a major assault on our borders.

27 posted on 06/04/2020 3:59:56 AM PDT by SanchoP (We're passed the biological softening up and beginning the open warfare strategy. WAKE UP!!)
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To: knighthawk

Obama filled the military leadership with communist and homosexuals. Allen is both.


28 posted on 06/04/2020 5:01:54 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Allen is now Brookings, and has always been a Hillary suck-up. While on active duty he was charged with illicit e-mails; he was cleared by a female IG on the take. Petraeus did not get off so lucky.


29 posted on 06/04/2020 5:06:09 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: knighthawk


"Allen was a featured speaker at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016, on the topic of national security. He criticized Republican nominee Donald Trump and endorsed Hillary Clinton for President.[34"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Allen
30 posted on 06/04/2020 5:19:23 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: SanchoP
John Allen, who served as a special envoy for the global alliance against ISIS under former President Barack Obama and now heads the Brookings Institution think tank, Quit reading right there.

Partner, me too.

31 posted on 06/04/2020 5:30:39 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: joma89

Yet another democrat general.


Yet another Uniparty general. POTUS has ever right at this point to push the GOP destruction buttton on his phone and start a 3rd party.


32 posted on 06/04/2020 5:33:21 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: knighthawk

Oh..an ‘Obama General’. Will Justice Roberts make a statement that there are no Bush Generals or Obama Generals, only ‘Generals’?


33 posted on 06/04/2020 5:52:40 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Flavious_Maximus

“Obama filled the military leadership with communist and homosexuals. Allen is both”

Wait, where does it say he is a Fag General ? I looked him up. Turns out he is married(to a woman) and that he cheated on her.


34 posted on 06/04/2020 6:02:55 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

Obama revised the military when he put all his lackeys in the high places. It has since then turned into a military deep swamp.

Nothing but yes men and politicians.


35 posted on 06/04/2020 6:15:02 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Do you want to be a subject or a citizen.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Obama filled the military leadership with communist and homosexuals. Allen is both.


These issue far predate the kenyan. We need to look at the post cold war period as one era. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Village Idiot. That’s 30 years of institutional rot. Now we are seeing the fruits of these 3 decades of “bipartisan” support for progressive corporatism.


36 posted on 06/04/2020 6:31:07 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: knighthawk

General John Allen is another in a long line of worthless Generals from the Obama years. He ranks right up there with some of the crap Generals Lincoln had to fire early in the Civil War.


37 posted on 06/04/2020 6:42:13 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: SanchoP

“... a special envoy for the global alliance against ISIS under former President Barack Obama...”

So.... he was the JV coach?


38 posted on 06/04/2020 8:49:37 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: VanShuyten

Exactly,and not a good one.


39 posted on 06/04/2020 8:55:52 AM PDT by SanchoP (We're passed the biological softening up and beginning the open warfare strategy. WAKE UP!!)
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To: ohioman

Clinton started COED BCT. Next fags and lezzies. Our military is led by PC/MC punks. I saw a photo of two fags
getting married in front of the main chapel at Ft. Bragg.

DISGUSTING.


40 posted on 06/06/2020 10:13:57 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and their AFGE union insurance)
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