In times of crisis good people must speak out, is an old, much stated truism. Mullen and Mattis are two of them.
"James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against one another."
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I Cannot Remain Silent Mike Mullen Seventeenth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [...] Whatever Trump's goal in conducting his visit, he laid bare his disdain for the rights of peaceful protest in this country, gave succor to the leaders of other countries who take comfort in our domestic strife, and risked further politicizing the men and women of our armed forces. P - There was little good in the stunt. P - While no one should ever condone the violence, vandalism, and looting that has exploded across our city streets, neither should anyone lose sight of the larger and deeper concerns about institutional racism that have ignited this rage. P - As a white man, I cannot claim perfect understanding of the fear and anger that African Americans feel today. But as someone who has been around for a while, I know enough—and I’ve seen enough—to understand that those feelings are real and that they are all too painfully founded. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=156037223
Was the problem in 2016 that too many Americans took the red pill or the blue pill. [...] "The red pill and blue pill is a popular meme representing a choice between taking either a "red pill" that reveals an unpleasant truth, or taking a "blue pill" to remain in blissful ignorance. The terms are directly derived from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix." P - My pill conflict? Well in voting for Trump events since have certainly revealed, what every informed voter should have known before the vote, "an unpleasant truth" about the man. And also in the vote for Trump many American voters seemed to choose "to remain in blissful ignorance", for the time, of the man. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=155689581
'Repeated violations': Iraqi president condemns US air strikes "Top Democrat blasts Trump's 'false' justification for Soleimani killing "As Tensions With Iran Escalated, Trump Opted for Most Extreme Measure "The Latest: Iraq parliament votes to expel US military""" https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=154341343
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”