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2020-07-10 -PC Follies
Top general slams Confederacy as 'an act of treason' and says the country needs to take 'hard look' at bases honoring its leaders
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Watch southern recruiting take a knee, including most of the combat forces.
Posted by Chunky Ebbanter9368 2020-07-10 00:12||   2020-07-10 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Trump should ask for his resignation - pour encourager les autres.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-10 03:29||   2020-07-10 03:29|| Front Page Top

#3 He certain does not appear to be in concert with his boss. Where is all of this coming from ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-10 04:36||   2020-07-10 04:36|| Front Page Top

#4 This crap needs to stop, now! Take his stars and chuck him out.
Posted by Phineter Turkeyneck6202 2020-07-10 05:34||   2020-07-10 05:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Military just joining the virtue signaling hit parade like other entities. Preposterous, but no surprise.
Posted by Clem 2020-07-10 06:57||   2020-07-10 06:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Anything above Colonel is a politican

Didn't seem to have that attitude when you needed millions of young white southerners to fill the ranks 1917-1973. Your upper class well-to-do whites sat out most of that with the very rare exception of 1941-45. Race is your new class warfare.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-10 07:14||   2020-07-10 07:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting that his view of the confederacy is that of treason yet he seems to be supporting a similar violent uprising against the current USA UNION led by Trump.

What is his view of the previous administrations actions prior to leaving office? What is his view on the riot destroyed businesses and statues the last 2 months?
Posted by Airandee 2020-07-10 07:19||   2020-07-10 07:19|| Front Page Top

#8 If the fear of bad PR is now so great, what are they not afraid of?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-10 07:21||   2020-07-10 07:21|| Front Page Top

#9 AR 350-1 should have an update any day now.
Posted by Clem 2020-07-10 07:36||   2020-07-10 07:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Are the forces in such a heady state of readiness that he has all this spare time? If Woody Allen's observation that showing up is 90% of success, I think the corollary is you get a lot of mileage out of doing the actual job at hand. Try going back to being a soldier for a while Mark.
Posted by Cesare 2020-07-10 07:57||   2020-07-10 07:57|| Front Page Top

#11 #10 Trump told them to switch from shooting goatherds from UAVs to preparing to fight PLA. Obviously, they don't like it.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-10 08:01||   2020-07-10 08:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Someone spun up a network of brownshirts on American soil and he thinks the problem is the COnfederacy. That's a special form of treason shit all its own.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-07-10 08:06||   2020-07-10 08:06|| Front Page Top

#13 #11 I keep wondering. What are general's retirement plans. Could he be aiming at a position with one of the firms with extensive business interests in China. Neh. The FBI/CIA would never stand for it!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-10 08:16||   2020-07-10 08:16|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm sure "Senator" Feinstein will give him a superb recommendation.
Posted by Clem 2020-07-10 09:00||   2020-07-10 09:00|| Front Page Top

#15 He needs to be removed, because he's too stupid to understand the concepts of reconciliation, of "with malice towards none, and charity towards all".

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-07-10 09:48||   2020-07-10 09:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Contributing to deteriorating morale and feeding the narrative of parasitic race hustlers hardly is befitting the nations top military leader. By impugning the heritage of anyone of southern lineage and suggesting we still cannot face the past mistakes of a shared heritage but must instead shame any trace of connection to that past, he helps destroy the idea of reconciliation cited above.
I cannot escape the impression that he has post retirement influences and preening sense of self importance contributing to this stupidity
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-07-10 11:05||   2020-07-10 11:05|| Front Page Top

#17 When the Radical Republicans wanted Jefferson Davis and all the Confederate officers tried for treason. They were not traitors because they did not advocate for the overthrow of the United States Government nor did they conspire with a foreign entity to do so. Imprisoned for two years at Fort Monroe, Virginia, Davis was indicted for treason, but was never tried–the federal government feared that Davis would be able prove to a jury that the Southern secession of 1860 to 1861 was legal. Varina worked determinedly to secure his freedom, and in May 1867 Jefferson Davis was released on bail.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-07-10 12:36||   2020-07-10 12:36|| Front Page Top

#18 I thought President Trump already announced they would not be renaming bases. So why is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wasting staff time with an exploratory commission when they have real work to do?
Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-10 14:17||   2020-07-10 14:17|| Front Page Top

#19 Because, TW
Milley said during a House Armed Service Committee hearing

So the Dems were pushing it, and he had to respond. Not that he's not a Wokester, but "We'll look into it" could be a dodge
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-10 14:54||   2020-07-10 14:54|| Front Page Top

#20 I do not trust this SOB. Just another politician in uniform. Disloyal bastard, should be busted to 2LT.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-07-10 15:22||   2020-07-10 15:22|| Front Page Top

#21 If General Milley"s leadership skills are anything
like his grasp of American history,he should resign.
Posted by EdC 2020-07-10 20:55||   2020-07-10 20:55|| Front Page Top

#22  but "We'll look into it" could be a dodge

Thank you for that voice of reason, Frank G.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-10 21:35||   2020-07-10 21:35|| Front Page Top

#23 #21. Yep
Posted by Dacama  2020-07-10 21:36||   2020-07-10 21:36|| Front Page Top

#24 A place of inveterate hates
Weighs differently citizens' fates --
"From many, choose one
To accuse, just for fun!" --
And it ain't the Confederate States
Posted by Phains Threrens1899 2020-07-10 22:30||   2020-07-10 22:30|| Front Page Top

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