1. I'm in sympathy with much of what Ross Douthat writes here (particularly on the corporate uses of diversity) but I think his discussion of the Cotton op-ed suffers from a fatal abstraction from context.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/nyt-tom-cotton-oped-liberalism.html …
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5. It's not an accident the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got enormous pushback for participating in Trump's St. John's photo op: the next day he issued a statement reaffirming military's commitment to constitution & later apologized for photo op. https://twitter.com/AYATOMM_COM/status/1271522360600887296/photo/1pic.twitter.com/sJM4Jf686C
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@DouthatNYT says Cotton distinguishes between looters & protestors. But, again, this isn't an abstract debate. Cotton isn't the commander-in-chief, Trump is. And Trump, as he did today, uses looters and protesters interchangeably. He'd be in charge if troops sent in.pic.twitter.com/08X1v5vBB8
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7. The problem with James Bennet's op-ed page (a problem that Douthat's current column replicates) is that it treated ideas as entertainments: playful exercises for the mind. Thought experiments. Now I think ideas can be playful but not always, not during a mass uprising!
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@DouthatNYT needs to address the fact that Cotton called for rules of engagement to be "no quarters" given -- i.e. no prisoners, only killing. That's a war crime.https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1267459561675468800 …Show this thread -
9. The 82nd Airborne was almost deployed. "There was some very deep philosophical discussions about the Constitution." Like I said, life is not a debating club.https://connectingvets.radio.com/articles/new-details-about-the-82nd-military-deployment-to-dc …
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The issue is what happens when the troops turn 180 degrees and aim at the White House rather than at the protestors. It would be ironic and oh so deserved by Trump, but not in the general case.
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I think some in the Pentagon might have feared that.
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Eisenhower at Little Rock?
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DOMINANCE!! The voters will be SO excited!!
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