Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Now Trump Wants a Military Parade


President Trump gets worse by the minute and the latest is deeply disturbing.

The Washingon Post reports that Trump's desire to have a military parade has now turned into an order to put one together:

Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagon’s tank — a room reserved for top-secret discussions — marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the planning.

Surrounded by the military’s highest-ranking officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Trump’s seemingly abstract desire for a parade was suddenly heard as a presidential directive, the officials said.

“The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” said a military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the planning discussions are supposed to remain confidential. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.” 
Shows of military strength are not typical in the United States — and they don’t come cheap. The cost of shipping Abrams tanks and high-tech hardware to Washington could run in the millions, and military officials said it was unclear how they would pay for it.
Trump's fascination with the military brings to mind Winston Churchill's love of war. The historian Ralph Raico wrote:
It began early,n as a child he had a huge collection of toy soldiers, 1500 of them, and he played with them for years after most boys turn to other things...He loved war as few modern men ever have- he even loved 'the bangs' as he called them...
Of course, Churchill managed to get Great Britain involved in a world war. Will Trump's infatuation with the military stop with parades or is he itchy to order some great bangs of his own?

It is a terrible thing to contemplate but we must.

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14 comments:

  1. You'd think the military might want to win a war before having a parade. This is kinda like when a washed up band puts out a greatest hits album because they can't write new material.

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    1. Very good point. I’ve heard once it is “the greatest fighting force ever”. That person must have been wrong.

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  2. If ever there was a place I would prefer to have a tank rolling it would be Washington, DC. The chances of it firing a round to kill in innocent Afghani child is about zero while it is in the US proper. Let's ship ALL the US tanks to Washington, DC.

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    1. Even better, though I’m for peace, is if the CIA/FBI cabal ever had a War with the Pentagram/NSA cabal. That Cold War turning hot could actually be beneficial.

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  3. I think Trump should also wear a red, white, and blue sash like the South American dictators do with a couple medals on it. That would complete the look.

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    1. Or stand stone-faced with other members of the politburo and wave at the underlings....

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    2. That's... Actually pretty clever.

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    3. We could put statues of him in major city squares. Kind of like that Saddam Hussein statue of him in a suit looking over the avenue or pointing at something.

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  4. I'm reading Pat Buchanan's "Churchill, Hitler, and the unnecessary war: how Britain lost its empire and the West lost the world" now. I knew Churchill loved war, but Buchanan paints an even worse picture than I imagined. Churchill was absolutely giddy when WWI was breaking out while the other ministers were somber, realizing that thousands of their countrymen would soon be dead.

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  5. --- The Washingon Post reports that Trump's desire to have a military parade has now turned into an order to put one together ---

    "Comrade Trump wants a parade and a parade the Boss will get!"

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  6. Well Trumpbots like Richard Spencer did say "Heil Trump" after the election. Got give the fascists the pomp and ceremony they crave

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  7. You don't become a "great president" without a war.

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  8. I think the ceremony song should be “”Anything you can do, I can do better”.
    Trumps line would be, “I can kill more people better than you!”

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