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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The idea of the military being an "elite" made up of people who are just fundamentally better than civilians is... Well, before we had the word "fascism", that's just literally what an aristocracy is "Duke" comes from the Latin word for a "general", a "knight" is cavalry
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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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