{"id":4359,"date":"2016-12-12T20:07:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T04:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2016-12-24T18:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T02:56:21","slug":"donald-trump-military-dictator-or-dick-daring-boy-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump, military dictator (or: Dick Daring, boy reporter)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve been watching presidential elections for 50-some years now (scary as that number sounds.) I don\u2019t ever remember seeing the kind of hand-wringing, brow-furrowing, downright shrieking we\u2019re now experiencing over \u201cthe selection of the cabinet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of this, of course, is that Donald trump ran against the state-socialist media, who assumed they (and the corrupt Republicrat politicians on whose greasy table scraps these tail-waggers dine) couldn\u2019t be beaten because they still \u201ccontrolled the message\u201d beamed into every American living room at suppertime.<\/p>\n

Bondservants to the disreputable Clinton campaign, they ran uncorroborated — without demanding a police report, a court deposition sworn under penalty of perjury, ANYTHING — every accusation the despicable Hillaryites could dredge up from a clutch of mostly middle-aged female Hillary donors (represented cost-free by a Hillary attorney suspiciously resembling Gloria Allred or her daughter) whining that billionaire Donald Trump groped them or bumped them or hit on them or kissed them, usually 11 to 31 years ago.<\/p>\n

That should fix him!<\/p>\n

But it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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(Just by the way, guys — hard at work on follow-ups, are you, now that you’ve got plenty of time, digging to see if any of those ladies were recruited, coached, or compensated by the billion-dollar Hillary Machine? Not even the TIMING makes you curious?)<\/p>\n

And unfortunately, when that didn\u2019t work, Hillary (who hasn\u2019t so much as gone grocery shopping since 1996), poor Hillary -\u2013 who couldn\u2019t seem to drum up one good rousing cheer among a hundred bused-in college girls in a high-school gym -\u2013 had no plan \u201cB,\u201d other than \u201cIt\u2019s my turn; I\u2019m not sure what you mean by \u2018the economy\u2019; if you don’t vote for me it’s because you hate womyn, and heck, fighting a land war against the Russians in Syria might be fun!\u201d<\/p>\n

So now, desperately faced with their own growing irrelevance, like fairy-tale monarchs revealed to be wearing no clothes at all, the gang at CNN, Politico, WashPo, Slate, et al., have sworn on a flaming cross to discover (invent, whatever) a demonic purpose behind anything and everything the billionaire hotel developer does.<\/p>\n

Far from worrying about this, Donald Trump glories in it. Controlling news cycle after new cycle, he\u2019s turned a usually dull process — the president-elect routinely announcing he\u2019s going to recycle half the cabinet from the last time his party was in power (is Kissinger dead yet? The Dulles brothers?) while adding a few personal cronies, yawn, put it on page 6 — into the nation\u2019s most-watched reality TV show, \u201cThe Tower Interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even milquetoasts like Mitt Romney, the \u201cconservative\u201d who banned firearms at the Salt Lake City Olympics (in a state where totin\u2019 firearms is otherwise legal and widely accepted) so as not to \u201coffend our foreign guests\u201d — and who dismissed Trump as a disgraceful clown only a few months back — come scampering at his beck and call, as the whole nation holds its breath and wonders. . . .<\/p>\n

This is driving the Left nuts. Is Trump actually looking for people with the management know-how to ENACT THE AGENDA HE RAN ON? Is he allowed to DO that? The BUSHES never did that!<\/p>\n

Why, he must be . . . a Russian agent! Sure, that\u2019s the ticket! (This from a bunch of closet Marxists who’ve spent the past 65 years insisting there were never any bad Commies in Hollywood OR in Moscow!)<\/p>\n

Or maybe he\u2019s . . . setting himself up as a military dictator! Sure! Bozo the Fuhrer, with swastikas on his floppy shoes!<\/p>\n

On Nov. 30, for instance, The Washington Post ran an essay by Phillip Carter and Loren DeJonge Schulman of the \u201cCenter for a New American Security\u201d \u2013- run by one Richard Fontaine, who was among dozens of \u201cRepublican national security\u201d figures who signed a letter during the campaign warning that Trump would be a dangerous president -\u2013 headlined \u201cTrump is surrounding himself with generals. That\u2019s dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Mind you, this was BEFORE Trump announced Monday that he\u2019ll nominate retired general John Kelly to run the Department of Homeland Security — the third ex-military man tapped for a top job in the administration.)<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than any other president-elect in recent memory, Donald Trump has sought out military brass to populate his inner circle,\u201d the WaPo thumb-sucker begins. \u201cTrump announced Thursday that he wants retired Marine Gen. James Mattis as his defense secretary — a post traditionally designated for a civilian.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Oh, no! Weren\u2019t Robert McNamara or Les Aspin or Don Rumsfeld available? They were great!<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump is also considering retired Army Gen. David Petraeus for secretary of state, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly for secretary of state or homeland security, and Adm. Michael S. Rogers as the director of national intelligence, the Nov. 30 Post piece rambled on.<\/p>\n

Ahhh!<\/p>\n

\u201cHis national security adviser-designate, Michael Flynn, retired from the Army as a lieutenant general after decades as a military intelligence officer. And CIA Director-designate Mike Pompeo graduated from West Point and served during the Cold War as an Army officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo doubt these men bring tremendous experience,\u201d the op-ed continues, with a bit of a sneer. \u201cBut we should be wary about an overreliance on military figures. Great generals don\u2019t always make great Cabinet officials. And if appointed in significant numbers, they could undermine another strong American tradition: civilian control of an apolitical military. . . .<\/p>\n

Um . . . what? Once military officers retire, don\u2019t they go back to being \u201ccivilians\u201d? Were Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy not “civilians”? <\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest risk posed by Trump\u2019s rush to court the brass is the extent to which our military leadership may become, in reality or perception, a politicized institution,\u201d the duo conclude. \u201cIn the . . . long run, both the Trump administration and our national security will suffer if his appointments undermine the institutional integrity of the military and corrupt its leadership in service of political ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wow. \u201cJournalists\u201d for Politico & the New Yorker quickly went even further Online, of course, bandying about the term \u201cjunta.\u201d Some in the globalist Leftosphere have even started issuing dire warnings about a Trump \u201cmilitary dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Trump is setting himself up for a coup by packing Cabinet with ex-generals,” we read at the far-left “Raw Story.” ( https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/12\/trump-is-setting-himself-up-for-a-coup-by-packing-cabinet-with-ex-generals-military-expert-warns\/<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

Oh, no!<\/p>\n

OPPOSED TO TYRANNY? OR DO THEY REVEL IN IT?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What would these yammerers say if America had a REAL military dictator?<\/p>\n

Just imagine if Americans elected a president who turned out to be a military dictator!<\/p>\n

Why, if any of the states were upset enough at his election to try and secede -\u2013 as some Californians are now proposing -\u2013 such a president could conceivably re-institute the draft, raise an army of hundreds of thousands, and invade any such seceding states, killing tens or even hundreds of thousands of their citizens (armed or otherwise), shelling and burning their cities and their crops till women and children would have to hide out in caves!<\/p>\n

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Such an out-of-control president could demolish their highways and rail lines, blockade their ports and cut off their trade in a purposeful attempt to \u201cstarve them into submission\u201d! Such a president might go so far as to arrest and jail newspaper editors for writing editorials in opposition to his unconstitutional usurpations. Why, he could arrest newly elected state legislators even in states that HAVEN\u2019T seceded, imprisoning them without trial or due process on the mere suspicion that they MIGHT vote to secede!<\/p>\n

And once they instituted martial law in conquered American cities, his military governors could actually execute — execute! by firing squad! — civilians for such minor infractions as \u201ctaking down an American flag,\u201d while threatening that if people didn\u2019t snap to it and start to obey their orders without question, why, they’d merely start treating the decent women of that city as WHORES!<\/p>\n

Good heavens! Why, if any newly elected American president were to do stuff like THAT, the journalists of The Washington Post and Politico and the New Yorker and The New York Times and CNN and MSNBC and every other news outlet that hates Donald Trump would probably, um . . . call him one of the greatest presidents in American history.<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

Because we already had that guy. We already had the president who turned into a military dictator, who did all those things, every one of them, for years, until a resident of one of those invaded and conquered sovereign states — states that were never warned when they joined the union that THEY\u2019D NEVER BE ALLOWED TO LEAVE — finally shot him in the head and killed him, an act properly described as \u201ctryannicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tom DiLorenzo and Burton Fulsom have documented it all: see https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2013\/06\/thomas-dilorenzo\/the-real-lincoln-2\/<\/a> or https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/confronting-lincoln-cult<\/a> , for starters.<\/p>\n

That tyrant\u2019s name was Abraham Lincoln, and I\u2019ll bet all those statist journalists, those worshipers at the altar of the all-powerful presidency, think it\u2019s JUST GREAT that American schoolchildren are still taught in their coercion-based government youth propaganda camps (\u201cpublic schools\u201d) that old \u201cHonest Abe the rail-splitter\u201d (in reality \u201cRacist Abe the railroad lawyer\u201d) was one of our greatest presidents, that we even still celebrate his birthday . . . don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

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I mean, these are the same characters who claimed the mass starvation and executions under Joe Stalin were \u201cjust exaggerations,\u201d that America\u2019s A-bomb spies of the 1950s were just \u201cvictims of the \u2018Red Scare,\u2019\u201d and that Fidel Castro was a \u201cgreat democratic freedom fighter\u201d . . . right?<\/p>\n

After all, Lincoln freed the . . . well . . . no. Actually, Lincoln never freed a single slave. If he\u2019d actually freed a slave, he surely would have asked his name and shaken his hand -\u2013 before reminding him that the \u201cGreat Emancipator\u2019s\u201d plan was to ship them all to Central America so they couldn\u2019t marry white folk — don\u2019t you think? Never happened.<\/p>\n

Lincoln repeatedly told the South they could keep their slaves if they merely agreed to stay in the union. He repeated in his first inaugural: \u201cI have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.\u201d (You don\u2019t think Honest Abe was LYING, do you?)<\/p>\n

And when he did finally publish an \u201cEmancipation Proclamation\u201d in 1863, he promptly admitted it was nothing but a political gimmick of no legal authority, carefully worded so as to \u201cfree\u201d only those slaves in the territories still in rebellion, so that his own generals could continue using black slaves to harvest cotton in conquered portions of Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana to ship to England for desperately needed foreign exchange.<\/p>\n

(And as many as two thirds of those black slaves were cheated out of their minimal promised \u201cwages\u201d -\u2013 see http:\/\/www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov\/articles\/291\/cotton-and-the-civil-war<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

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Yet oddly enough, I don\u2019t believe Lincoln -\u2013 whose own military experience was limited to a few months in the Illinois militia during the 1832 Blackhawk War -\u2013 had ANY notable former generals in his cabinet, whereas the inexperienced Muslim amateur who almost got us into a war with Russia over Syria, Barack Obama, appointed three generals (James Jones, Eric Shinsheki, and Dennis Blair) to HIS cabinet, as Bill Kristol recently pointed out . . . without anyone shrieking that the Chicago “community organizer” was creating a \u201cjunta.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, former generals including Washington, Grant, Eisenhower and even Zachary Taylor proved pretty good about keeping us out of pointless, swamp-like foreign wars with no clear way out. It\u2019s folks with MINIMAL or NO military experience like LBJ and the Clintons and Obamas (and ever FDR, who let our forces weaken unforgivably in the 1930s, even as he goaded Japan with embargoes in hopes they\u2019d attack) who keep doing that.<\/p>\n

Of course there have been bad and stupid generals, but our military leaders \u201cin general,\u201d knowing how awful war can be, have sought to deter war through strength, and -\u2013 when war proves unavoidable -\u2013 tend to prefer short, massive, decisive action.<\/p>\n

IS HE SERIOUS? HE MIGHT ACTUALLY DO<\/em> SOME OF THAT STUFF HE PROMISED? AAAAH!<\/strong><\/p>\n

So what’s this all about? The left and their propaganda arms, the legacy press and the teachers’ unions, LOVE strong, tyrannical leaders who raise taxes, debase the currency, sell out our liberties in favor of bigger government and cost-plus contracts for their corporate buddies, and get us into really big wars. That’s why Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt are on their “all-time greats” lists, while presidents who kept us out of war and pretty much just carried out their constitutional duties — Jefferson, Martin Van Buren — are lumped down at the bottom with the uninteresting losers.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, Donald Trump can be arrogant, even boorish. Yes, the secretly recorded, 11-year-old “they’ll let you grab their pussies” tape was cringe-worthy (though “let” implies consent, and I thought all good leftists agreed everything is OK so long as it’s consensual.) Meantime, did you hear Hillary laugh about springing the rapist of 12-year-old Kathy Shelton with Hillary’s “she asked for it” defense ( http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/live\/second-presidential-debate-fact-check-livewire\/fact-check-yes-hillary-clinton-laugh-successfully-defending-child-rapist\/<\/a> ), . . . or about causing the death of Moammar Gadhafi? ( https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y<\/a> ) Does the word “soul-less” come to mind?<\/p>\n

It took a pretty bullish personality type to stand there and weather the shame-a-thon orchestrated by the perverts Clinton and Podesta, who made the mistake of assuming the Donald would behave like one of their own simpering pajama boys, collapsing in a heap of tears and apologies, instead of standing tall, driving through, drawing 30,000 fans to his twice-a-day pep rallies — sometimes exceeding the populations of the towns in which they were held.<\/p>\n

Arrogance can be at least partially forgiven in a man who — unlike Hillary Clinton — has a lot of accomplishments to be arrogant about. It also helps when the oratory doesn’t sound completely memorized. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what really concerns today’s globalist, open-borders, \u201cOh no! Global warming! I\u2019m mellltinnng\u201d gang: It\u2019s the fact that Trump is interviewing and winnowing down and seeking out leaders, not hand-holders who will coddle and sympathize with career paper-pushers who try to explain to them why nothing can be accomplished, but people who actually have a track record of suffering no whiners and getting things done.<\/p>\n

THAT\u2019S what worries them.<\/p>\n

Dwight David Eisenhower, like George Washington before him, was a guy who reached for solutions that could get something done. When Governor Orville Faubus said that no black student would ever set foot in Little Rock’s Central High School, did Eisenhower send a \u201cnegotiator\u201d? Well, kind of. His \u201cnegotiator\u201d was called the 101st Airborne.<\/p>\n

And when Eisenhower decided it was time to start rounding up the illegal aliens and sending them back where they came from, he didn\u2019t ask corrupt, paid-off Democrats like Lyndon Johnson to help him \u201csecure the border, pretty please with sugar on it,\u201d did he? No, he brought in retired three-star Gen. Joe Swing. (See http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2006\/0706\/p09s01-coop.html<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

HE CLEANED UP THE COUNTRY, THE OLD WILD WEST COUNTRY, HE MADE LAW AND ORDER PREVAIL . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of Swing’s first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect,” the Christian Science Monitor reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen on June 17, 1954, what was called \u2018Operation Wetback\u2019 began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBy mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.\u201d<\/p>\n

And \u201cUnlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.<\/p>\n

\u201cTens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sea voyage was \u2018a rough trip, and they did not like it,\u2019 says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.”<\/p>\n

All with a tiny fraction of the personnel available to our immigration boys, today.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the way generals do things.<\/p>\n

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But no one I know of, then or now, described the Eisenhower administration as a \u201cmilitary dictatorship.\u201d . . . or a \u201cjunta.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Wall Street Journal opined on Dec. 9:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo hear the media these days, you\u2019d think Donald Trump is about to turn the U.S. into a banana republic, where all life is controlled by the \u2018generals.\u2019 As Time\u2019s headline quavered this week: \u2018The Creeping Militarization of Donald Trump\u2019s Cabinet.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe junta watch began with the appointment of retired three-star Michael Flynn to be national security adviser. . . . The grumblings really got going with the selection of retired four-star Marine Gen. James Mattis to run the Defense Department: A general to run the military, whatever happened to civilian control?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe press\u2019s nerves finally snapped when Mr. Trump proposed another retired Marine four-star, John Kelly, to run the Homeland Security Department. The President-elect couldn\u2019t slip this cabal past the Washington Post: \u2018Trump hires a third general, raising concerns about heavy military influence.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cSorry to break the mood,\u201d the Journal editorialist writes, \u201cbut a military coup is the last thing that worries us about the Trump era. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe case for the Trump generals has much to do with the reasons he was elected. Toward the top of those voter concerns is that Washington \u2018doesn\u2019t work.\u2019 One big reason Washington no longer works is because the bureaucracies inside its various departments have grown too big to succeed. <\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the Vietnam War, the U.S. military undertook an historic reorganization of how it recruited, trained and deployed the vast numbers of individuals serving in the armed forces. That reorganization is a famous success story. Generals Mattis, Kelly, Flynn and Gen. David Petraeus (mooted for Secretary of State) are products of this military structure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. needs more of these management skills, especially as executives from private business find it harder to maneuver around conflict-of-interest rules. Generals Mattis, Kelly and Flynn have spent careers navigating large public bureaucracies, and succeeding in spite of them. . . .<\/p>\n

“Modern Washington needs more than a few good men and women. Donald Trump should get them wherever he can find them.\u201d<\/p>\n

And amen.<\/p>\n

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