 Jim Horne, 1953 |
Posted on 02/04/2017 10:01:37 PM PST by Steelfish
Obama Pentagon Official Says Anti-Trump Military Coup Now Possible Says Trump ‘as crazy as everyone feared’; claims military overthrow and ‘an insane order’ both ‘frightening’
By Carlo Muñoz - February 2, 2017.
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. In addition, 52 percent of voters polled said they would rather have President Obama in the Oval Office, opposed to the 43 percent who support the Trump presidency.
In the editorial, Ms. Brooks noted that Mr. Trump’s “thin-skinned, erratic, and unconstrained” approach to defense matters of defense could put top U.S. military leaders in a position where they would be forced to execute orders that may be “dangerously unhinged” from a basic understanding of national security.
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Yep scary indeed.
Jim Horne, 1953 |
See # 32, 36, & 45
Any attempt to start a military coup will probably just end in a few dozen collaborators being arrested and court martialled for treason. I don’t think there would be more than about 5% support for anything like that in the military and there would be 60 to 80 per cent solid support for Trump (and the constitution). Those with no strong opinion would read the situation pretty fast.
The current wave of protests looks more dramatic because it’s mostly near big media centers and supported by the media. If similar numbers of people came out to support Trump in a hundred smaller cities, there would be almost no coverage and no media support. Just like the election, all of this is basically tilted to the ten largest cities and therefore unrepresentative.
Maybe Trump should just say, well, America doesn’t really need those ten cities, maybe they should form a ten-city confederacy like in ancient Greece and go off on whatever tangent they want. But we’ll keep New York, too important to lose. Really, if Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, a bunch of other places left, who would miss them? You can drive around them. I already do.
Interesting.
Someone’s crazy all right: Rosa Brooks!
Rosa Brooks is on her way to prison, she just doesn’t know it yet.
He brought out the crazy in projecting Leftists.
It is downright shocking to hear of someone promoting this line of reasoning in public.
Trump is about as crazy as our Founding Fathers who came up with the Constitution he is trying to live up to. Yes, they loved our nation too.
Crazy fools! /s
See # 32, 36; & 45
I’m sure Mad Dog will get right on it. That is, if he’s not too busy taking orders from noted military strategist, Sarah Silverman.
fake news all the way. Obama wants is power back and his appointed people are his tool of choice. Maybe these old Obamaphiles need to be Purged or sent to Adak Island.
Funfan’s post # 45 has a link to the Lt. Col’s twitter feed. Worth a look.
Active military, mocking the CIC.
They still frag officers.
Obama tore tight thru. Trashcanned the defense generals — so certainly DJT will replace a few soon.
You are right. Inciting violence is not speech protected by our Constitution. I think the FBI should schedule a meeting with her. She needs to be outed and made sure that no private, state or federal employer hires her. Just imagine the cascade of boycotts, and threats inflicted by the left on private businesses that don’t toe their line.
Time for freedom lovers to haunt the hell of whoever employs her.
who was it more possible to occur under, obama or trump?
look at how the services voted.
this is such libtard masturbatory fantasy porn.
Isn’t that why 0bumbler fired over several hundred Generals and high up offiicers...he thought or was afraid they were going to pull off a Coup on him? I know that many were fired or had trumped up charges leveed against them and forced them to retire!!! Many, military that I know voted for him and still support Trump as their CIC and him highly esteemed!!!
Yeah, I guess that's why no one voted for him!
Regards,
it seems like whenever either party puts up a candidate who well, “it’s their turn.” that party loses. Ex, Dole, Mondale, Gore, McCain, Kerry. It does not surprise me that McCain turned to Soros for money because he’s been anti-Republican since 2001. He’s not insane, He’s a turncoat through and through.
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