{"id":18424,"date":"2016-12-07T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18424"},"modified":"2016-12-07T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:01:57","slug":"trump-surrounded-by-know-nothing-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18424","title":{"rendered":"Trump surrounded by &#8216;know-nothing&#8217; generals?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kelly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18425\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kelly-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"kelly\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kelly-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kelly-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kelly-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kelly.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First it was Michael Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>Then came James Mattis.<\/p>\n<p>Now we hear that John Kelly is joining the Donald J. Trump administration. What do these men have in common?<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all retired generals.\u00a0Flynn is a soldier; Mattis and Kelly are Marines. Among them they have 11 stars on their epaulets. Army Lt. Gen. Flynn will be the national security adviser; Marine Gen. Mattis will be defense secretary; Marine Gen. Kelly is slated to be nominated to lead the homeland security department.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, didn&#8217;t Trump say he knows &#8220;more than the generals, believe me&#8221; about ISIS?<\/p>\n<p>It might be that perhaps he&#8217;s rethinking that bold &#8212; and reckless &#8212; boast. If so, then he ought to acknowledge as much.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s another fascinating aspect of these men: They&#8217;re all blunt talkers. They speak their mind. They are take-no-prisoners kinds of men when it comes to policy discussion and debate.<\/p>\n<p>The Flynn-Mattis relationship might be particularly fascinating to watch, given the traditional tension that exists between the national security chief and the defense boss.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, will these men&#8217;s penchant for candor and frankness work well with a president known to be, um, less than receptive to other people&#8217;s points of view, let alone these so-called truth-tellers?<\/p>\n<p>This could be dramatic in the extreme.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it was Michael Flynn. Then came James Mattis. Now we hear that John Kelly is joining the Donald J. Trump administration. What do these men have in common? They&#8217;re all retired generals.\u00a0Flynn is a soldier; Mattis and Kelly are Marines. Among them they have 11 stars on their epaulets. Army Lt. Gen. 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