Happy Friday America! It's been less than 48 hours and already our brave redacted Commander in Chief has, finished with using 25,000 troops he says he can't trust to ethnicly cleanse the Capital of all Americans, sent troops back to Syria. Come on man, we gotta take on the Roooshans, just like we've been telling you for years. For (check's list) Freedom in the Middle East.
I guess those four peace treaties the Trump administration helped to get enacted don't matter. Ready or not, here they come:
That's a brave warrior of Meal Team VI, just finishing protecting Bomb'n Biden from the YUUUGE inaugural crowds.
You remember when Joe campaigned on bringing the troops home defending Syrians in Syria from Syrians? It was right there in the answer to the question posed by the third circle reporter:
Ah, what a campaign. Dominionating the Donald. It will go down in infamy history as the most free and fair election ever!. Now, back to war. (Thanks Joe! That's what 80 million voted for.) Here they are, bravely moving forward from where Donald J. Trump ordered them not to be in the first place.
I'm so glad our officer corps is loyal. Let me pause here to pronounce my loyalty to the man who garnered more votes than Barack, more votes than any president in history. Phew, glad I got that out. I'd hate to be pronoun-ed disloyal the Resistance.
Russia's response to these troop movements (authorized by Congress of course) via the twitter safety council warning video DANGER on this tweet. Aren't you glad twitter is keeping us safe from videos? Unlike this 21 seconds of How Dare They direspect the CinC. (I'm sure they were just scanning the vast inauguration crowds celebrating the election of Bomb'n Biden, to keep him safe.)
O/T from Syria but right on the topic of mockery, fans of Blazing Saddles (I'm thinking of you in particular TTG) may appreciate this mashup of Brennan's latest rantings:
https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1352140356792557568
Posted by: Barbara Ann | 23 January 2021 at 09:29 AM
Elaine,
The history of active duty military domestic deployments is long, extending far beyond Biden and Trump. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Active duty and federalized National Guard troops were deployed and employed domestically over a dozen times since then. The DoD and every military installation has a MACAP (Military Assistance to Civilian Authorities Plan). I rewrote the MACAP for Fort Jackson back in the 80s in close cooperation with several South Carolina state agencies, the SC STARC along with several military and civilian lawyers. A lot of thought, planning and coordination goes into this.
This short “Stars and Stripes” article examines the controversy surrounding the 2018 deployment of active duty troops in support of DHS on our Mexican border. It includes a short DoD paper on the subject. I wouldn’t be surprised to see active duty medical units deployed in support of mass inoculations this year. They’re expert in giving a lot of shots to a lot of people at once.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/deployment-of-active-duty-troops-to-us-mexico-border-was-legal-ig-finds-1.642011
Posted by: The Twisted Genius | 23 January 2021 at 09:35 AM
Fred,
You're right. I am not heartened by some of the people Biden brought back to the national security apparatus and DOS, especially Nuland. Biden also picked McGurk as senior director for the Middle East and Africa at the NSC. He always had a thing for the Kurds. That's why I don't see us pulling out of Syria anytime soon. I think it's 50-50 whether we try to establish an independent Rojava, which would not just be bad but futile, or push the Kurds to come to some kind of accommodation with Damascus. That's what we should have been doing since the first SF teams went into the area back in 2015.
Posted by: The Twisted Genius | 23 January 2021 at 09:51 AM
All
The National Guard now deployed to occupy Washington, DC are not in federal service and therefore the Posse Comitatus Act does not apply to them. They remain state troops. This should be obvious.
If that were not so, the governors of New Hampshire, Texas and Florida would not have been able to withdraw these forces and return them to their home states. With regard to Regular Army forces (quaintly called "active forces" at present) these can be used whenever necessary through the simple mechanism of the Insurrection Act. This act has been invoked 23 times in US history and will be again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807
Posted by: turcopolier | 23 January 2021 at 10:53 AM
I am so grateful for living in Florida. I didn't realize it but around the country regular folks are extremely impressed with our Governor, Ron DeSantis. He's called back our Guard from DC saying that, "these people are soldiers, not Nancy Pelosi's personal servants". Alas, he's also become the GOP front runner for the 2024 election. I hope he runs for governor here again in 2022 rather than participate in some ceremonial election.
Posted by: BillWade | 23 January 2021 at 10:58 AM
Barbara Ann,
That was excellent and well done. I never noticed how well Brennan fit in as a character in "Blazing Saddles." His looks, his voice are perfect for inclusion in Governor Le Petomane's staff harrumphing along to protect his phony baloney job. I'm surprised no one ever did one for Obama's inauguration as Sheriff Bart’s welcome to the town of Rock Ridge. Damn! Why can't we laugh at ourselves anymore?
Posted by: The Twisted Genius | 23 January 2021 at 11:58 AM
TTG
Good question. Of course humor becomes more important the more serious things get, not less.
If you enjoyed that you (& everyone else) may also like a similar mashup of the establishment media fawning over Joe's ascent to power, mixed with - what else - but DPRK's inimitable Ri Chun-hee. Saw Smoothie had posted a link to it over on his blog (thanks Andrei).
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Oo02zAWTL_o
Posted by: Barbara Ann | 23 January 2021 at 01:39 PM
Barbra Ann,
So true. In "Stranger in s strange land" Heinlein grokked humor as human response to that which is too painful to be dealt with in any other way. An exquisitely humorous observation.
Posted by: Mark Logan | 23 January 2021 at 02:18 PM
Since when did President Trump *truly* have control of the Pentagon?
Posted by: Willie | 23 January 2021 at 07:45 PM