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WestSideJayhawk: "Trump is a black hole. He will always take the low road in any situation, and he drags everyone in his orbit down into his swirling vortex of terribleness. People who work for him, people who do business with him, people who try to defend him and help him, people who criticize and argue with him, the entire Republican Party, military members and their families, and anyone else that engages with him on any level. Hell, I feel worse whenever I think, speak or write something about him. He brings out the worst in everyone, all the time."
For some veterans, John Kelly’s remarks add to a worrying military-civilian divide - "... Kelly’s comments echo a prevalent attitude in some military and veteran circles — a feeling of pride for taking on a tough job in some of the most dangerous places on Earth, coupled with a simmering resentment of civilians oblivious to their mission.
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"Kelly’s words Thursday worried Carter and others. His somber ordering of how a dead service member is moved from battlefield to burial was a helpful glimpse for Americans who have not experienced that trauma. But Carter said he paired the idea with a belief that most civilians could not conceive — or intentionally fail — to understand that burden. 'It was odd. The military does not have a monopoly on loss and hardship,' Carter said.
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"The notion of military service as the purest form of public virtue, at the cost of other kinds of service to others, is an alarming development, he said. 'Military courage is something society needs to have and we need to valorize it,' Klay said. 'But we also need a civic body that makes this a country worth fighting for.' In particular, Klay said, the politicized discourse around service, and who understands its burdens, obscures legitimate questions that all citizens need to engage with, beginning, in this moment, with why U.S. forces were in Niger in the first place."
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