Have Admiral (Ret.) McRaven's Anti-Trump Comments Changed Your Opinion of Him?

McRaven lost me when he fell in with that den of witches at UT.

quote:

---

Do you still feel this country owes a debt of gratitude for bringing Bin Laden to account for his crimes against this country?

---

yes

quote:

---

Do you still hold him in high regard?

---

no

He probably just has an opinion of Brennan based upon some ideas of the position that Brennan held. It’s kind of common for that generation.

I don’t hold it against him. It’s just a mistake he’s made in evaluating Brennan’s character. It happens to all of us.

Admiral McDouchebag

quote:

---

It’s fun to watch how quickly you guys turn on people just because they say what they feel about Donnie.

---

If he’d confined his remarks to the President, I’d probably agreed with him. Defending the serial liar Brennan as a man of integrity isn’t defensible.

Actually, caused previous questions i had about the obama story to resurface. If there were shenanigans going on it would be easier to cover up with high ranking military officers on board.

That’s fair

I hold him in the same regard I did before. I honor his service. I find his political commentary to be distasteful. It is bad form for retired military officers (regardless as to political affiliation) to enter into these discussions.

quote:

---

It’s fun to watch how quickly you guys fall in love with people just because they say what you feel about Donnie.

---

FIFY

Retired Adm. William H. McRaven, head of the Special Operations Command during the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden, dared the president to pull his security clearance as he had Mr. Brennan’s. “If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken,” Admiral McRaven wrote.

It’s clear that Mr. Brennan’s fierce political and personal attacks rattled the china in the Oval Office. The president essentially has accused Mr. Brennan of lèse majesté — the crime of criticizing the monarch, tantamount to treason. Remarkably, this relic of the days when kings were deemed divine remains on the books in some European monarchies as well as nations like Saudi Arabia, where a critique of the crown is considered terrorism.

(Criticizing the president) is not a crime in the United States. That’s why we fought a revolution against a mad king.

For nine months now, the president has been ranting about the “Deep State.” He sees it as a coterie of present and former leaders of F.B.I. gumshoes and C.I.A. spooks who are out to get him through leaks and lies. There is no deep state in America — at least, there hasn’t been the threat of one since J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972, six weeks before the Watergate break-in. But in the mind of Donald Trump, if any group of retired military and intelligence officers could serve as the shadow cabinet for a silent coup, it’s men like Bill McRaven and Bob Gates. They worked for Obama! (Yes, and Reagan, too.)

Trump is not a king