As President Biden politicizes the military under the guise of battling ‘extremism,’ too many of our senior military leadership has either rolled over or are staying mum. However, yesterday over 120 retired U.S. generals and admirals, including Don McGregor, Major General U.S. Air Force, Retired, and Senior Advisor to the Center for American Defense Studies (CADS), decided to speak up.
Others included retired Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin, and retired Vice Adm. John Poindexter—who was the deputy national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan.
In a public letter, the large group called ‘Flag Officers for America’ wrote:
We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776. The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty.
During the 2020 election an “Open Letter from Senior Military Leaders” was signed by 317 retired Generals and Admirals and it said the 2020 election could be the most important election since our country was founded. “With the Democrat Party welcoming Socialists and Marxists, our historic way of life is at stake.” Unfortunately, that statement’s truth was quickly revealed…
As a life-long freedom fighter and son of political exiles from communist Cuba, I can definitely agree with their statement and concerns.
The letter went on to discuss in detail the issue of ‘election integrity’ and the 2020 election, which I would have preferred not to be included in such a statement, opening the group up to an easy counterattack about spreading the so-called “Big Lie.” It then went on to bemoan the Biden administration’s Executive Orders and ‘authoritarian’ policies such as lockdowns, school, and business closures, and most critically, widespread censorship in America by progressive leftists.
All these issues are valid, but these distinguished officers were most effective, and relevant when sticking to national security. And here they hit some of Biden’s national security disasters in progress:
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Open borders jeopardize national security by increasing human trafficking, drug cartels, terrorists’ entry, health/CV19 dangers, and humanitarian crises. Illegals are flooding our Country bringing high economic costs, crime, lowering wages, and illegal voting in some states. We must re-establish border controls and continue building the wall while supporting our dedicated border control personnel…
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China is the greatest external threat to America. Establishing cooperative relations with the Chinese Communist Party emboldens them to continue progress toward world domination, militarily, economically, politically and technologically. We must impose more sanctions and restrictions to impede their world domination goal and protect America’s interests.
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Re-engaging in the flawed Iran Nuclear Deal would result in Iran acquiring nuclear weapons along with the means to deliver them, thereby upsetting Mideast peace initiatives and aiding a terrorist nation whose slogans and goals include “death to America” and “death to Israel.”…
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Stopping the Keystone Pipeline eliminates our recently established energy independence and causes us to be energy dependent on nations not friendly to us, while eliminating valuable US jobs. We must open the Keystone Pipeline and regain our energy independence for national security and economic reasons.
I would have preferred more about containing China, and maybe something about Biden’s reckless defense budget cuts. However, to me one of the most important issues brought up by these retired flag and general officers was the politicization, denigration, and subversion of our active and reserve military under Biden and the Democrats. The letter noted:
Using the U.S. military as political pawns with thousands of troops deployed around the U.S. Capitol Building, patrolling fences guarding against a non-existent threat, along with forcing Politically Correct policies like the divisive critical race theory into the military at the expense of the War Fighting Mission, seriously degrades readiness to fight and win our Nation’s wars, creating a major national security issue. We must support our Military and Vets; focus on war fighting, eliminate the corrosive infusion of Political Correctness into our military which damages morale and war fighting cohesion.
Of course, some former military officers criticized the letter. Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the letter “hurts the military and by extension, it hurts the country” and said it contains GOP “talking points,” according to Politico.
Jim Golby, an expert in civil-military relations, called it a “shameful effort to use their rank and the military’s reputation for such a gross and blatant partisan attack,” while a retired Air Force colonel who teaches cadets at the Air Force Academy, Marybeth Ulrich, labeled it “anti-democratic.”
“That was way worse than I was expecting,” said Ulrich, a retired Air Force colonel who teaches civil-military relations at the Army War College and Air Force Academy. “They are perpetuating the big lie about the election. I think it is outrageous. Some of it is very anti-democratic behavior.”
My question though is where were these critics when retired Navy Adm. William McRaven accused Trump in 2019 of endangering the republic with his leadership. Or where were they when nearly 200 retired generals and admirals in an unprecedented partisan effort – ‘National Security Leaders for Biden’ – openly shilled for Joe Biden and against the sitting President Donald Trump; prompting Trump to respond with his own mega-list of supportive ex-generals and admirals.
Sadly, the Democrats politicized the ex-military then, and are politicizing the current military now. That should be their biggest concern.
We will need the general’s help sooner or later
The only reason they have the military guarding them in Washington D.C. is because with all the dirt they are doing to Americans they are so afraid somebody is going to shoot their sorry ass
Someone needs to do just that!!!
Been occuring since Cold War 1: 1945-1991 (overseas then) vs now
Cold War 2: 1991-2021+
And of course, walls are immoral.
We AMERICANS MUST CLOSE OUR BORDERS, biden, harris WILL NOT DO IT. The illegals coming in are bringing in MAJOR WEIGHT OF DRUGS!!! biden is KILLING AMERICA, every day it’s something new and BAD for AMERICANS!!! MSM is just as BAD, protecting the COMMUNIST REGIME IN POWER NOW!!! d. lemons cnn show cancelled (YES SIR) now, the rest of them, c. wallace, g. king, reid, holt, all these people that are perpetrating a fraud, claiming to be “journalists”, they are NOT. BOYCOTT, BOYCOTT, BOYCOTT!!! It works!!!
Give me a nice long list of a successful CATHOLIC “C” nation … Hey, you have a hundred to choose from all just south of the USA.. A hundred nations, a thousand years and exactly 100% failure! . I am waiting.
Vote for ANY CATHOLIC “C” and you vote for failure forever.
Why don’t you kill yourself!!!
THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS WARNING TO FUZZY JOE! MAYBE THESE 120 OFFICERS NEED TO COME BACK AS THE GROUP RUNNING THE PENTAGON ARE FEEBLE MINDED WEENIES IN OKING THIS MARXIST INVESTIGATION INTO THE TROOPS TO WEED OUT THE CONSERVATIVE AND HARD CORE FIGHTERS AND ALLOW THESE TRANSGENDER PANTY WAIST WEAKLINGS IN WHICH WILL WEAKEN THE FIGHTING MORAL NEEDED FOR A REAL ARMY! THIS FOUL PLAN BY THE DOD HEAD IS THE DOWN FALL OF OUR MILITARY AND PURE MARXISM AND NEEDS STOPPED AND THIS DOD HEAD REMOVED NOW!
We need more constitutionalist military to stand up!!
What are they waiting for? We need their leadership and presence!
as long as it is just words – powerful and righteous though they may be – the “Demoncrats” will ignore it and start more riots to keep us in our place. Sorry but true.
As a 5 year US Army and 16 year USAF Vet I am very worried for my Country. I stand behind these brave men. I am very worried about our Women and Men serving at the present time. We must stand behind them.
“The letter went on to discuss in detail the issue of ‘election integrity’ and the 2020 election, which I would have preferred not to be included in such a statement, opening the group up to an easy counterattack about spreading the so-called ‘Big Lie.’” The leftist MSM is pushing this meme and working closely with others to keep it alive.
Being able to shape an election outcome is not a matter of national security? What do you think happened in Venezuela?
Are you following what is happening in Arizona? Why is the DOJ getting involved? There are some incredibly smart people ( I can link you to them if you get in touch with me) who have seen enough to justify legitimate audits.
The most dangerous thing to our freedom and prosperity is liberals, which is just a softer term for communist.
this shows the extent of the reach of the super rich in taking over and detroying America. Also of these higher up military people that support thr division tacticts, who abuse the constitution, who are afraid of an honest audit of the election (if you did nothing wrong then why be afraid of an audit?), and who support CRT anywhere should be hung .These tratior higher up military commanders are a disgrace to themselves and the US. OH, CRT is a theory, you know like the well held throey of the earth being flat.
It’s time for the military to step up and defend our Constitution and Bill of rights otherwise there WILL be a Revolution. It won’t be a Civil war,,, it’s the So called Elites that are the problem.
The last Paragraph of this article say’s it all when it come’s down to it. The hypocrisy of the left and the Democrat controlled Propaganda main stream media is deafening. But the real patriotic Americans aren’t buying what their selling anymore
I’m glad someone in authority is speaking out about the problems. Biden is oblivious to all the crisis that is happening around us. I hope it will help.
Finally some flag officers with a little backbone too bad they are out of office.
Election fraud is a fact, no way Biden won. I doubt more than 50 million votes were real for Biden. Trump won in a massive landslide but not clever enough to have the military on hand to guard the henhouse. The democrats actions, the photo evidence, and thousands of witnesses denied due process prove it. Shame on Roberts and the Supreme Court cowards. The fact that not a single democrat of value has been prosecuted and put away since the Tea Party proves how close to communism we are. The murder by a hidden away capital police of an unarmed Trump supporting former military women Jan 6 while the extinguisher lie persists and passed around by the fake news when that cop died of a stroke, and several Trump supporters that did nothing dangerous are still in solitary confinement in jail with no bail while the dems like Harris praise turning all the criminal rioters around the country loose for months without having to post bail. Now if that isn’t proof of dem collusion with criminals and communists and thus treasonous I don’t know what is. Numerous parallels how Hitler and the Nazis lied 24/7 and it didn’t end until allied bombs started leveling Germany. Some things require common sense and the wisdom of Solomon, an attribute not understood by atheists, progressives, bullies, socialists, even Fauci (Mengela reincarnated; Fauci caused at least 400,000 unnecessary covid deaths by supporting gain of function in bat viruses farmed out to Wuhan China and spread the lie Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin didn’t work). No one believed the holocaust until Eisenhower made them walk through the crematoriums and kept one around preserved for future generations to see, yet there are still deniers like the Jihad squad AOC, Omar, and other slime, like Clintons remarks so what if 4 men walked in a park, what difference does it make, there dead, details and actions don’t matter to criminals like Clinton, and then like Oswald, Ruby got him, and the Clinton mafia got Epstein, dead men can’t talk, just like the latest effort as the dominion voter data with former Clinton IT people cleaning out data on a server in Arizona just like when they relieved Hilliary of 33,000 of her emails by bleach bitting it with no consequences, proof she was guilty, and again nothing happened, oh but they impeached Trump twice on no evidence, no due process, or even a hint of a real trial, sort of like the French revolution, off with their heads, or is that Alice in Wonderland. They are all scum who have an agenda, communists, so stand up now and fight to the last breathe before its too late. The rules of war for criminals are kill everyone until only they are left to change the story. Freedom fighters defend the constitution just like in 1776, and stand up for freedom. Israel does it right, they are for peace by preserving their lives and nation through strength and defense. They learned the hard way in WWII, never again. Now they need to take a Hungarian Jew, George Soros and Jew Zuckerberg off our hands and teach them a lesson in what Judaism is as Americans for christianity would be greatfull and the world would be a much better place. Otherwise it will be Armagedden. Amen
Give me a nice long list of a successful CATHOLIC “C” nation … Hey, you have a hundred to choose from all just south of the USA.. A hundred nations, a thousand years and exactly 100% failure! . I am waiting.
Vote for ANY CATHOLIC “C” and you vote for failure forever.
UNFORTUNATELY THIS WILL GO NO WHERE???????? THE Biden Administration IS COMMUNIST!!!!!!!! THE DEMS/FRAUD PARTY DO NOT CARE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY?????? OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE???????? AS THEY LOVE BEING DICTATORS????????? POWER OVER OTHERS??????? VIOLENCE???????? VILE HATRED???????? THERE IS ONLY 1 WAY TO GET RID OF THEM?????? AND IT IS NOT THE ELECTIONS??????????