What can one say about the U.S. general officer who said the following after President Trump correctly, and at long last, removed former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearances.
“Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him. Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.”
Those words were spoken last week by dear, faux-noble Admiral William McRaven, a man who is identified in the media as the architect and leader of the “raid that killed bin Laden.” Funny, I would have thought the raid’s leader was the officer who commanded the attack team on the ground in Abbottabad – you know, where the danger was — not the officer who was heavily guarded by friendly forces in whatever headquarters he safely sat, drinking coffee, while the operation occurred.
Nonetheless, dear, self-promoting Admiral McRaven ought to be taken at his word, and the president should terminate his clearances. In fact, why should any retried U.S. general officer retain his or her clearances? The president should take away the clearances from all of them.
Indeed, why would any U.S. administration want the advice of any of America’s retired general officers, a band of arms-manufacturing company directors who share one central and shameful trait with all post-1945 generals; namely, not one of them has won a war in which America was involved. And, oddly, these men-of-constant-defeat are treated by the citizenry as demigods, even though they have willingly got our soldier-children killed and maimed in all the unnecessary wars they knowingly lost in the past seven decades. The public’s misplaced trust and respect ought to stop immediately, and heckling ought to commence whenever one of these wretched losers begins to speak.
Given this hard but true fact, one must ask the question: “Why has no U.S. general officer ever criticized a president who ordered them to war with no intention of winning it?” Are these general officers simply lovers of losing, is all their talk about caring for the lives of their men just hype, or have McRaven and the rest of his brother non-winners simply decided to speak-up now because Trump will knock them off their dependable, post-retirement corporate gravy trains if he continues to keep us out of new wars and seeks to limit our exposure to being drawn into wars for others. I believe it is the latter.
As for Brennan, no one will be able to find a professional and successful U.S. intelligence officer who would utter — without a gun to his head — the words: “Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question.” Brennan, dear unperceptive – or is it deceitful? — Admiral McRaven, is a duplicitous ass, whose career was made by lies and back-stabbing, kissing the butt of every intelligence officer, general, or politician for whom he worked, abusing his subordinates, and by his eager willingness to ensure that their interests and wallets, and never the republic’s security interests, always came first.
Indeed, dear, self-righteous Admiral McRaven, you would not have had to risk the lives of your men at Abbottabad in 2011 to kill bin Laden – if, in fact, you were concerned about their survival – if Brennan had not made sure he protected Saudi Arabia’s interests by siding with George Tenet, Bill Clinton, and Richard Clarke to prevent the United States from trying to kill bin Laden on any of the ten occasions, in 1997-1998, that were afforded them by the CIA officers risking their lives on the ground in South Asia.
I wonder, dear, showboating Admiral McRaven, if there is anything worse than a man like Brennan – who kept bin Laden alive, covered-up for Hillary’s murder of Americans in Benghazi, and helped Obama illegally fund the Iranian mullahs? If there is, it can only be you and so many of your war-losing band of brothers, men and women who always have their eyes on the main chance – riches from the arms-makers in retirement.
And, by the way, Admiral McRaven, I do know Brennan, and he is a lying, anti-American cur. And in my book, Admiral, so are you.
