George Rebane
Having served in America’s military constrains neither an individual’s 1A rights nor his duty as a concerned and patriotic citizen in calling attention to a grossly misguided government. To remain silent in such a case is, at a minimum, the height of cowardice and dereliction of duty. Seeing the destruction of our republic that the Biden administration is engineering with their even more radical colleagues in Congress, over 120 retired flag officers (generals and admirals) came together to sign an open letter to the nation (here). In this letter they express their deep concerns about what is going on currently in our country, and what this means to the future of America and Americans.
In response to the publication of this open letter, the always anti-Trump and sometimes right-of-center Foreign Policy was given to vapors as it digested “this piece of appalling partisan invective” (here) It came out with a strong editorial that took the former flags to task, even accusing them of being unpatriotic, and declared that the “open letter by former officers calling the president a ‘Marxist’ dictator is a greater threat to US democracy than the ouster of Liz Cheney.”
The FP mavens even went so far as to accuse these civilians of having “violated the norms of their profession and contributed to the erosion of healthy civil-military relations in the Untied States.” Apparently they missed that part of their political science studies that taught them when and where members of the American military are to remain non-partisan. The strictures when on active duty fall away once their military careers are over and they re-enter civilian life. Our country’s history is full of episodes of former military officers becoming quite partisan after their service terminated – at least five of them even became presidents, hundreds have served in partisan elected offices, and thousands more let their subsequent partisan voices be heard in the public square.
To FP and like-thinkers, these former officers “are now doing their level best to undermine (the Constitution) and, in particular, the crucial principle of civilian control.” As you read the flags’ open letter, you will see that they do none of what their leftwing opponents accuse them.
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