Look, the actual intent of the system is to have civilian oversight -- the military is of course still *run* by generals (the Joint Chiefs of Staff) but at the very top they have to answer to non-military authority It's important, and eroding it with loopholes is bad https://twitter.com/TioSamSays/status/1336322388519079938 …
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It's generally a very bad sign for a country when a leader starts wearing a dress uniform all the time and demanding to be addressed by a title and rank It was a very bad sign for THIS country when we started saying "Commander-in-Chief" all the time after 9/11
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(The President is not and never will be "my Commander-in-Chief", no matter who it is Because I will never join the military, and only members of the military have a fucking "commander" As a citizen of a democracy, nobody fucking "commands" me That's fucking important)
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Okay look the idea of having an actual civilian as SecDef -- rather than a retired O-10 passing through a loophole -- got a bad rap after the infamous Robert McNamara (an Army Air Force vet whose worldview was shaped by his business career, who "ran the military like a business")
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I agree that, while constantly putting former generals into the SecDef position is bad, so is putting in business school graduates who will run the military like a business Here's a thought: How about we don't do EITHER ONE
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There are lots of things that aren't businesses! Funny how people's idea of "civilian institutions" is that the only respectable civilian institutions worth a damn are Fortune 500 corporations!
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I think I should be the Secretary of Defense, and I will run the nation's military like my Twitter account I won't put very much effort into it and I'll mostly try not to have it have any impact on anything important
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