Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don\u2019t have to strain your imagination\u2014all you have to do is watch Thursday\u2019s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump\u2019s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Before walking off the stage, Kelly told Americans who haven\u2019t served in the military that he pities them. \u201cWe don\u2019t look down upon those of you who haven\u2019t served,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, in a way we are a little bit sorry because you\u2019ll have never have experienced the wonderful joy you get in your heart when you do the kinds of things our servicemen and women do\u2014not for any other reason than that they love this country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, I don’t “feel sorry” for people because they didn’t serve. They made a choice, a poor choice, in most cases. Our pages here are replete with examples of people who have tried to correct their poor choices by pretending to have served beside us. Gessen, on the other hand, tries mightily to bring us down to her level. <\/p>\n
There is no plot for a military coup – the Constitution has put under the control of our civilian masters, and we have sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, so a military coup would violate the tenets of the Constitution, but media goofballs like Gessen haven’t read the Constitution, so they woudln’t know that. If ever there as going to be coup, it would have happened while President Obama was dismantling the Defense Department.<\/p>\n
Maria Alexandrovna “Masha” Gessen should stick to writing about Russian politics and quit trying to tear down the American military,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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