{"id":44349,"date":"2020-09-10T21:33:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44349"},"modified":"2020-09-10T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:33:13","slug":"trump-takes-aim-at-the-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44349","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes aim at the brass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=JointChiefs%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/don-and-the-brass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44350\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/don-and-the-brass-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/don-and-the-brass-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/don-and-the-brass.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis _92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I cannot remember ever hearing an American president say the things that Donald Trump has said about the high command of the nation&#8217;s military.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, I also doubt the generals and admirals about whom Trump was referring had ever heard it, either.<\/p>\n<p>Trump called a press conference on Labor Day and then decided to take off on a riff against the brass. He said the line soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines like and respect him, but not so much with the top end of the chain of command.<\/p>\n<p>He essentially accused the Pentagon brass of being war profiteers. They want to keep fighting &#8220;endless wars&#8221; because it keeps weapons suppliers in business, which Trump said suits the brass just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I never got close the brass while I served in the U.S. Army, so I cannot speak with any actual authority on the subject. I just will posit the notion that generals and admirals who have been to war want no part of it even though they no longer thrust themselves into harm&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p>How do I know this? I just do. I have talked over the years with enough junior- or field-grade officers who&#8217;ve seen combat to know how they feel about the idea of going to war. They <em>hate<\/em> war with a purple passion!<\/p>\n<p>So, for Trump to effectively defame the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the officers who answer directly to them makes me wonder: How do these men and women continue to serve silently under a commander in chief who has no appreciation for what they have endured while serving the country they all love?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=JointChiefs%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis _92@hotmail.com I cannot remember ever hearing an American president say the things that Donald Trump has said about the high command of the nation&#8217;s military. Moreover, I also doubt the generals and admirals about whom Trump was referring had ever heard it, either. Trump called a press conference on Labor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump takes aim at the brass<\/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":[1424,2565,5168],"class_list":["post-44349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-joint-chiefs-of-staff","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349","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=44349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44351,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349\/revisions\/44351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}