During the Clinton presidency, I worked with a politically liberal woman who was dating a Marine. She suspected he was a conservative, although he kept his political opinions to himself. <\/p>\n
She asked him, “What do you think of Bill Clinton?” <\/p>\n
He replied, “I think he’s my commander in chief.” <\/p>\n
Right. That’s what a Marine should think about the president. We believe in civilian control of the military, and we expect the military to strive to stay out of politics. (There are limits to that, but it’s generally the right thing to do.) <\/p>\n
So it’s rather disturbing that The Biden Administration is trying to enforce ideological purity on the military academies.<\/a> <\/p>\n We were warned about how Trump was going to be a dictator, “violate norms,” and all that. Biden has been violating norms left and right, and has shown far more signs of being a dictator. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the Clinton presidency, I worked with a politically liberal woman who was dating a Marine. She suspected he was a conservative, although he kept his political opinions to himself. She asked him, “What do you think of Bill Clinton?” He replied, “I think he’s my commander in chief.” Right. That’s what a Marine should … Continue reading ““I think he’s my commander in chief.””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}