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Our 'War
President' Goes To Battle
By Eric
Margolis
`He who seeks to defend
everything, defends nothing.’
King Frederick the Great of
Prussia.
March 30,
2020 "Information
Clearing House"
- This is one of the most important
maxims of military history. Every young officer
should have it drilled into his head.
Yet the confused administration of President Donald
Trump has been doing just this as it fights an
invisible foe no one expected. Trump, who dodged US
military service using phony doctor certificated
about his feet, now shamelessly styles himself ‘a
war president.’
This new affectation mirrors Trump’s well-known love
of ostentatious displays, military parades, and
bombastic talk. When draft-dodgers grow old, they
often become flaming warmongers and carriers of the
big stick. Fox-TV watching older American men
replaced their long faded sexual prowess with calls
for martial action by…..the young, of course.
Now, as the coronavirus spreads, our self-proclaimed
‘War Leader’ has drawn his sword to defend
endangered America. But Trump can’t decide if he is
waging war against a vicious virus or fear itself.
For the first two weeks of the epidemic he dismissed
it as a ‘hoax’ sp54088-cread by lefties. It was
surprising the Clinton Democrats did not claim the
plague was started by Moscow.
When the light of reality put an end to Trump’s
Panglossian cheer, the president assumed the costume
of doctor in chief and began warning that the
’Wuhan’ virus was very dangerous and likely
introduced by foreigners (read Muslims, Chinese and
Mexicans). If only his wall had been built.
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