Posted on 08/30/2021 2:28:04 PM PDT by Willie Lumpit
The dead return from Afghanistan. No President is there to receive them: No representative of this criminal government. As the scale of the disaster overseas becomes increasingly clear, it becomes more and more difficult to believe that it was all the result of mere incompetence.
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It was planned, just like everything else we are going thru. It’s a feature, not a bug.
Our local bar & grille reserved a table with 13 beers on it. I don’t generally tear up, but forgive me.
A point someone else made regarding that was, nearly half of those that died weren’t even old enough to order a beer.
Tragic and a waste.
I see on the photo of President Trump that he saluted the coffin. Biden did not salute at the most recent ceremony but instead placed his hand over his heart. I wondered at that. Which is the correct protocol for a civilian Commander in Chief of the armed forces?
The Biden administration and Fox News (I repeat myself) all have blood on their hands...American civilians and military blood.
I don’t think the Commander In Chief is a civilian. If he were he wouldn’t salute the Marines at Marine 1 or the AF folks at AF1
I’ll be making an appointment to take a shiite as they bury our low-rent, traitor of a President.
How long before Fox trots Brett Bair out blaming Trump and Republicans for the deaths of Americans in Afghanistan?
As Commander in Chief Biden should be court-martialed for treason, for giving aid to our enemies.
Maybe I should ask the local establishment to put root beer instead of beer on half the places. Maybe it was their preference. I was in the service and a baker's dozen of these guys and gals were happy with the beer.
Good pooint but I’ve always heard that the United States armed forces are led by a civilian commander-in-chief although I agree that as he acts as CIC he is part of the armed forces.
President is the Sr. Civilian Leader.
The protocol got inherited from a time long ago when the Civilian leadership knew their position of power came from 2 places, the loyalty of the armed services not to the leaders, but to the nation and the trust the nation through voting put in the civilian leadership. The president is in service to the citizens to be that suprema commander, but it is the citizens in control. If voting is not trustworthy the entire chain is very weak, and each party knows it very well. If the senate was still chosen by the state government and state constitutional process we would not be in this mess. Guess we are in a countdown to balanced budget, unfortunately it will be forced by our creditors no matter how many ships we have in our navy and planes in our air force. Everything both parties call Freedom will die in a credit crisis.
Actually, the saluting came in with Reagan, who supposedly saluted a Marine when boarding AF1 at the start of his term and then asked, “am I supposed to salute you?” The Marine said, “I don’t think we’d mind if you do, sir.”
However, it’s standard practice now. I think the hand over heart gesture is now used for some other ceremony.
Yessiree, bigbob
I don’t know.
I was under the impression that our military had civilian oversight and they ultimately controlled the money and when war was declared, ie Congress.
I’m sure someone on here can say one way or another.
If the senate was still chosen by the state government and state constitutional process we would not be in this mess
That’s the money shot right there. But that also depends on the integrity of the state legislatures. In Georgia there isn’t much but we wouldn’t have two socialists. So there’s that.
“as they bury our low-rent, traitor of a President.”
Do you mean Obama or Biden or both?
It is not saluting by the President, he is returning the salute. Military courtesy = respect of rank and return of respect to the lower rank.
When the National Anthem is played, right? A civilian puts his hand over his heart, and a cop or active military or veteran salutes. (If I Recall Correctly, Sir!)
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