Being in the military does not make someone immune from criticism. No matter how much the Trump White House wishes that this was true, it isn’t. Gen. Petraeus was correct.
No one from the Bush administration ever claimed that Petraeus was above criticism during the troop surge in Iraq. In a free society, people must have the right to criticize their government.
The government is of the people, not above the people. Donald Trump has managed to bring the vast majority of the country together in a common stand against his authoritarian leanings. The military is not Trump’s personal force. They don’t exist for the President to hide behind when he gets himself into trouble.
The military understands the rights that they are protecting clearly better than Trump, who is fighting to undermine them.
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