Source: Breibart
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http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/05/13/former-seal-carl-higbie-hillary-clinton-commander-chief-half-military-gonna-get/.
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SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon asked Higbie if the major problem faced by the American military through the Obama years was a shortage of logistics, weapons, and equipment, or “a problem of will, of taking the fight to the enemy, of having the back of those people, like yourself, who are on the tip of the spear.”
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“I think the problem is not the men. The problem is not the budgeting. The problem is the direction and allocation of assets,” Higbie replied.
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“It was a little bit crazy how the whole thing went down,” Higbie said. “I was deployed under Bush, and then again under Obama. The stark differences between the rules of engagement, and the tempo, and the general atmosphere of the commanders that were overseeing us was completely night and day.”
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“When I hit the Navy with my grievances, and I did so through the proper channels, they didn’t listen to me, so I published my first book, Battle on the Home Front,” he said. “Enemies Foreign and Domestic is about how I went about trying to take on the Administration, the upper echelons of the military, and say, ‘You’re getting people killed. This is what needs to change, and if it doesn’t, we’re gonna lose this war.’ And they didn’t want to hear it.“I ended up having to go through a four-year legal battle with the military, and I came out on top, I won.”
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I think this is a very sobering and true article.
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I hope more people are willing to stand up and be counted.
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I don't think it will result in significant change but it might slow the rush to hell down a bit.
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Sigh.
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I hope conservatives hereon will agree with his perspective, as dreary as it is. I think it's reality.
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