Threatening 'The Enemy Within' with Force: Military Ethicists Explain the Danger to Important American Traditions
The Conversation | By Marcus Hedahl and Bradley Jay Strawser
Published October 25, 2024 at 2:29pm ET
On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has declared there are serious threats to the United States. First, he said, there is "the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous," as he told Fox News in an Oct. 13, 2024, interview.
He went on to say that "the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military."
When asked on CNN about Trump's remarks about using the military on U.S. soil, Mark Esper, one of five people who led the Defense Department during Trump's presidency, said Americans "should take those words seriously," most especially because Trump had already tried to do so when he was president.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/25/threatening-enemy-within-force-military-ethicists-explain-danger-important-american-traditions.html
