It has been a rough period for President Trump and the military leaders with his former defense secretary, retired Marine General James Mattis, assailing him for dividing the country — a sentiment given an 'Amen' by Trump's former chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly — not to mention criticisms from Gen. Colin Powell, Adm. Bill McRaven, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Gen. John Allen, [and] Adm. Mike Mullen.The President and his supporters have had plenty of nasty things to say about these men who have served our country, of course. No need for me to report them. You all have access to Twitter.There is one group of generals, however, that the President is standing firm with, dead racist losers — more specifically, the Confederate commanders after whom 10 Army bases are currently named. Days ago, the Pentagon said that they wanted to begin a bipartisan conversation about renaming these 10 bases but the President shut that down. He wants to continue to honor them. He wants to continue to honor, for example, John Brown Gordon, the namesake of Fort Gordon in Georgia. Major Gen. Gordon is believed to have headed the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, essentially in that era a terrorist organization. The President wants to continue to honor Gen. Henry Benning, who was, in the words of Gen. David Petraeus, "Such an enthusiast for slavery that as early as 1849 he argued for the dissolution of the union and the formation of a southern Slaveocracy."He wants to continue to honor Braxton Bragg, a slave owner who resigned ignominiously after losing the Battle of Chattanooga. And on and on — you get the point.Men who declared war upon the United States to fight for their right to own and rape and kill Black Americans.Now, the White House cannot defend the fact that a US military base is named after someone believed to have headed the Georgia Klan, so instead they talk about how we won two world wars with soldiers trained on those 10 bases. Four of these forts were named in the 19-teens, six of them were named in the 1940s.Read More – Source
It has been a rough period for President Trump and the military leaders with his former defense secretary, retired Marine General James Mattis, assailing him for dividing the country — a sentiment given an 'Amen' by Trump's former chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly — not to mention criticisms from Gen. Colin Powell, Adm. Bill McRaven, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Gen. John Allen, [and] Adm. Mike Mullen.The President and his supporters have had plenty of nasty things to say about these men who have served our country, of course. No need for me to report them. You all have access to Twitter.There is one group of generals, however, that the President is standing firm with, dead racist losers — more specifically, the Confederate commanders after whom 10 Army bases are currently named. Days ago, the Pentagon said that they wanted to begin a bipartisan conversation about renaming these 10 bases but the President shut that down. He wants to continue to honor them. He wants to continue to honor, for example, John Brown Gordon, the namesake of Fort Gordon in Georgia. Major Gen. Gordon is believed to have headed the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, essentially in that era a terrorist organization. The President wants to continue to honor Gen. Henry Benning, who was, in the words of Gen. David Petraeus, "Such an enthusiast for slavery that as early as 1849 he argued for the dissolution of the union and the formation of a southern Slaveocracy."He wants to continue to honor Braxton Bragg, a slave owner who resigned ignominiously after losing the Battle of Chattanooga. And on and on — you get the point.Men who declared war upon the United States to fight for their right to own and rape and kill Black Americans.Now, the White House cannot defend the fact that a US military base is named after someone believed to have headed the Georgia Klan, so instead they talk about how we won two world wars with soldiers trained on those 10 bases. Four of these forts were named in the 19-teens, six of them were named in the 1940s.Read More – Source
