Posted on 02/03/2017 4:35:28 AM PST by davikkm
A former Defense Department official under the Obama administration has raised the specter of a military coup to remove President Donald Trump from power. In an editorial penned for Foreign Policy, senior Pentagon policy official Rosa Brooks publicly suggested a military insurrection against the Trump administration may be the only option to oust one of the most divisive presidents in American history. “Donald Trump’s first week as president has made it all too clear: Yes, he is as crazy as everyone feared,” Ms. Brooks wrote. “[One] possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders.” For the first time in her career in public service, including three years as senior counselor to the Pentagon’s policy chief from 2009 to 2011, “I can imagine plausible scenarios in which senior military officials might simply tell the president: ‘No, sir. We’re not doing that.’” Ms. Brooks’ editorial comes as a recent poll by Public Policy Polling group found that 40 percent of registered voters support Mr. Trump’s impeachment.
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Everything started going downhill when DR. SPOCK said not to spank your children.
The fact that half the people who bought into that concept believed that Dr. SPOCK was the guy on STAR TREK also shows where our education system was at, even back then.
Who’s military? Mexico? Zimbabwe? Pfft...
GMTA. I had this same thought this morning. America is now paying the price for failure to discipline “the children.”
So, she is one more highly educated idiot who knows less than nothing about that which she claims to be an expert?
PPP is a lefty polling place and the results suck for them with the huge difference in oversampled RATS.
Q33 If you are a Democrat, press 1. If a Republican,
press 2. If you are an independent or identify
with another party, press 3.
Democrat 41%
Republican 30%
Indy 29%
But I would say the probability of it approaches Zero, probably less than that since the military didn't stage a coup for the past 8 years.
Delusional! The military loves Trump.
As a former O-1, O-2, and O-3, I disagree with your assessment. It is drilled into junior officers’ heads to consider whether an order is illegal. An order to depose the sitting President that does not come down from the appropriate civilian authority would be highly suspect, IMO.
She was a stinking socialist civilian anarchist appointed to a made-up position by the Traitor Obama.
Anything she has to say has no relevance to anything.
Period.
And any senior (or junior, for that matter) "official" at the Pentagon that gives any relevance to any of her loony-tune musings is a treasonous son of a bitch that needs to be shot at Ground Zero.
And if you know the Pentagon, you know what Ground Zero is and why it's called that.
I am fed up with the fake news media giving ink to these morons and thus providing a semblance of reality to their idiocy.
I support and will defend the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution...but that does not mean that I have to listen to any of their crap...and I rarely do...especially the two-bitters like ABCBANBCNN...etc.
“Everything started going downhill when DR. SPOCK said not to spank your children.”
...and when they removed prayer from school.
They removed CHRISTIAN prayer from schools, and instituted Islamic prayer in it’s place.
I would immediately bring back all the senior people Obama had fired.
He doesn’t want to be called Mad Dog.
#21, If it comes to war Sir, I assure you It will not be Civil. ;)
Thanks for your service.
My point is that no O-1, 2, or 3 would EVER get an order “depose the President”. Obviously, anyone who issued such an order would be arrested in short order.
If you look at the history of military coups, successful and otherwise, the junior officer corps never gets a clear picture of what is happening. They get field orders appropriate to their rank and responsibility to carry out operations of limited scope.
Only the coup plotters have the whole picture, and if they are to succeed, one thing they MUST do is conceal the true nature of what is happening from those with the means to stop them until it’s too late.
Look, I’m not saying a military coup is going to happen. I do not believe it is likely. I do believe it is possible, given the extent of open treason among elected officials of both parties and the extensive infiltration of the upper ranks with officers acceptable to Team Obama.
You were an O-3. Suppose you were awakened at 0300 by your battalion commander and told that a major terrorist attack on the White House was in progress, that the President and VP were missing, that the Speaker of the House had assumed authority as Acting President and that your company was to deploy to defend the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street, because enemy forces dressed as US soldiers were crossing Key Bridge.
The internet is down, and TV and radio are off the air.
Would you deploy, or would you immediately, with your only contact your battalion commander who gave you the order, denounce it as an illegal order and refuse to obey?
Maybe someone should call in “Mr Brooks” and find out where he stands on his wife’s position...
“The daughter of best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and author and psychologist John Ehrenreich, Brooks has two children. She is married to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Mouer,[21] an Army Special Forces officer.”
exactly!
If she tries, the coup will last about 17 seconds and will result in all two or three of the coup members dead on the ground.
We have the guns AND we have the numbers.
So...BRING IT!
I’d say that is an accurate assessment. 8>)
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