Yesterday I was taking inventory of my R17 posts and realized that due to the extremely busy and fascinating life of a MOSL (Man of Semi-Leisure) I had failed to lock in a post for today, Thursday.
When that happens, I usually turn to my iPhone for a collection of funny and weird pictures I seem to accumulate, like this one...
Or, to my favorite obsession, the slogging demise of our former president.
That's when it occurred to me that I should pen an open letter to the generals who found themselves working shoulder to shoulder with this sad sack of psychopathic pig shit. If anyone had a chance of swaying the voting public, the thinking went, it would be our former apolitical military leaders.
After all, there's nothing Americans love more than their guns, bibles, KFC, non-gendered beer and old white guys with epaulets and fancy buttons on their chest.
Sure enough, before I could start with the clicking and clacking, former White House Chief of Staff, General John Kelly was in the news doing exactly what I was going to ask him to do.
"A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them,'" Kelly said of Trump. "A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family — for all Gold Star families — on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.”
There was much more than that.
Apart from his not-so-brilliant use of the passive voice, it was a stinging rebuke, albeit one that was long overdue.
So that's one.
When are we going to hear from the others? Paging General James "Mad Dog" Mattis.
You sat next to the 215 lbs. ignoramus, who wanted to (and still wants) to disband NATO even though $1000 says he can't get within 500 miles of locating Lithuania on a map. Or even Germany or France. Are you going to sit on the sidelines and watch whining low information Red Hats coronate our next King?
What about General H.R. McMaster? You also served in his cabinet and witnessed first hand the monumental level of his jaw-dropping incompetence.
And what about the countless 2 and 3 star generals who never enjoyed the spotlight but now have an opportunity to serve their country and their Constitution?
You have a duty and an obligation to protect us from the enemies of democracy. To 81 million of us, it is abundantly clear who that enemy is.
He's the one with the bad bronzer.
Speak up, or forever hold your swastika armband.
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