{"id":74816,"date":"2017-09-19T10:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74816"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:29:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:29:24","slug":"president-trump-wants-a-military-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74816","title":{"rendered":"President Trump wants a military parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post<\/a> which reports that the president’s visit to France’s Bastille Day parade which showcased France’s military might has influenced Trump to inquire to his military chiefs to organize a military-style parade on Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n

On Monday, seated next to Macron, he boasted about the levels of U.S. military spending so far in his term. And he said his goal would be to \u201ctry to top\u201d what France did.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we’re looking forward to doing that,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI’m speaking with General Kelly and with all of the people involved, and we’ll see if we can do it this year,\u201d he added, referring to Chief of Staff John F. Kelly.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment about plans to hold such a parade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There have been July 4th parades a block over from Pennsylvania Avenue every year. While they included some military aspects, there have been no tanks, artillery, fly-overs and things that Trump envisions in his parade. <\/p>\n

In my opinion, we don’t need a parade to showcase our military force – it’s on display around the world on any given day, in action and on nearly every continent. Military might on parade isn’t in the American character – we are not a tin-pot dictatorship like the Russians, the Chinese, North Korea and the others around the world which puts it’s force in the streets as tacit threat to control their own people under the guise of patriotism.<\/p>\n

I also sympathize with the common soldiers who will take time out of their training to scrub and paint vehicles in preparation for a martial pageant, the hours of practice they will have to engage in will only detract from their readiness for real world engagements.<\/p>\n

If anyone were bother to ask me about this, I’d have to vote an emphatic “No!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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