Losing an election is a bit like going through the five stages of grief, and Democrats have yet to reach the acceptance stage. That means they still think their opinions matter on what should and shouldn’t happen in the incoming Trump administration. They also think their outrage means something.
So what are they mad about now? According to reports, Donald Trump is planning to recall retired military officials so they can be court-martialed for the failures of the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal. The news immediately sent the press and some former generals into an apoplectic rage.
Trump plans to recall retired officers to active duty to court martial them for Afghan withdrawal will be a disaster for military morale and a political bomb for him. The Uniform Code of Military Justice is a codified Congressional statute and operates under Federal law…. not…
— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) November 18, 2024
The plan includes recalling retired officials to active duty to court-martial them, NBC News reported, a move McCaffrey said is unprecedented and unlikely to succeed.
“This is utter nonsense,” McCaffrey said during an MSNBC appearance on Monday. “What is not utter nonsense is this is a political attack of utmost hypocrisy.”
McCaffrey, who is a retired U.S. Army general turned media personality, could not be more wrong about this. The idea that morale would be harmed by finally holding these partisan flag officers accountable is utter nonsense. On the contrary, I would suggest that nothing would make the rank-and-file of the U.S. military happier than seeing the rules applied evenly for a change. The fact that no military leaders were ever punished for the failures of the Afghanistan withdrawal remains a stain on America’s history.
Like the civilian bureaucracy, the upper levels of the Pentagon see themselves as untouchable and above being subject to the voting public. That attitude is why the once-great U.S. military hasn’t managed to win a war in decades. Members of the general class are just as political as any politician, and they will sell their fellow servicemembers down the river if it means cozying up to a Democrat president. There is no better example of that than Gen. Mark Milley, who most are no doubt familiar with at this point.
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Jesse Kelly provided the perfect rebuttal to McCaffrey’s rant.
There’s nothing in the world that would help the morale of the men than to see a flag officer face real punishment the same way the guys on the ground have.
You officers have no idea how much resentment your little club has created in the troops. https://t.co/xpElO14Vpg
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) November 19, 2024
Still, the press is doing its level best to turn all this into a scandal. Aside from recalling and court-martialing generals like Milley, Trump is also planning to wipe out the general class currently in place. Meet the Press called that a “politically-motivated purge.”
MeetThePress clip shows how media parrots DOD’s defenses of itself. Reporter calls pursuing accountability for Afghan debacle a “threat” & claims “it’s confusing” why anyone would think generals screwed up. And reporter calls firing woke generals a “politically-motivated purge.” pic.twitter.com/RSh4fQO0ct
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) November 19, 2024
You’re dang right it’s politically-motivated. The general class is infested with left-wing partisans who put politics above the rank-and-file, sometimes with deadly consequences. The purge is coming, and no amount of crybagging from the press is going to stop it. Buckle up.
