{"id":33661,"date":"2018-11-19T22:09:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T22:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33661"},"modified":"2018-11-19T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T22:09:03","slug":"this-tempest-just-wont-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33661","title":{"rendered":"This tempest just won&#8217;t go away"},"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\/2018\/11\/3349066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33662\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3349066-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3349066-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3349066-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3349066.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tumult caused by Donald Trump&#8217;s disparagement of a heroic Navy SEAL continues at full boil.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that? Because the president of the United States won&#8217;t back down from the hideous criticism he leveled at retired Admiral William McRaven, the fellow who coordinated the May 2011 commando raid that took down Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>McRaven, who&#8217;s now a private citizen, had criticized the president&#8217;s war on the media as a grave &#8220;threat to democracy.&#8221; Trump then responded in an interview with &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; host Chris Wallace that McRaven should have gotten bin Laden &#8220;much sooner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, he criticized the architect of the operation. He in effect denigrated the service of a heroic American warrior, who spent 37 years wearing the uniform in service to his country. He was injured training to become a SEAL. He also led the team that captured the late Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>So, for this president &#8212; who actually <em>avoided<\/em> service during the Vietnam War &#8212; to criticize a hero simply is beyond my own ability to comprehend. He called McRaven a political hack, a Hillary Clinton &#8220;backer&#8221; and a fan of President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Admiral McRaven is as admirable a man as one could find.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump? He, um, <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this tempest just won&#8217;t quit.<\/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>The tumult caused by Donald Trump&#8217;s disparagement of a heroic Navy SEAL continues at full boil. Why is that? Because the president of the United States won&#8217;t back down from the hideous criticism he leveled at retired Admiral William McRaven, the fellow who coordinated the May 2011 commando raid that took down Osama bin Laden. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This tempest just won&#8217;t go away<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[540,1424,2139,3458,4069,5263],"class_list":["post-33661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-william-mcraven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33663,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33661\/revisions\/33663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}