IMO you can spot wrong-headed regimes by the respect and weight they give retired generals. In the US they now have retired generals in most official positions and all TV presenters are retired generals, as well as school teachers and mothers. Actual mothers. Look how that went for them.
Those guys know how to think about killing people. They’re not multi-function machines and shouldn’t be given oversight of the civilian population. Generals should be put out of danger (to everybody else) when they retire. We can watch them move in and out of the weapons manufacturing industry and they cannot be trusted to have undistorted interests. Can’t believe I have to wake up every morning to find us not having put these assholes and their preoccupations behind us.
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IMO you can spot wrong-headed regimes by the respect and weight they give retired generals. In the US they now have retired generals in most official positions and all TV presenters are retired generals, as well as school teachers and mothers. Actual mothers. Look how that went for them.
Those guys know how to think about killing people. They’re not multi-function machines and shouldn’t be given oversight of the civilian population. Generals should be put out of danger (to everybody else) when they retire. We can watch them move in and out of the weapons manufacturing industry and they cannot be trusted to have undistorted interests. Can’t believe I have to wake up every morning to find us not having put these assholes and their preoccupations behind us.