{"id":135868,"date":"2018-02-11T12:06:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135868"},"modified":"2018-02-12T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:57:32","slug":"parade-of-mights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/11\/parade-of-mights.html","title":{"rendered":"Parade of Mights"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am gratified that a vast majority (89%) of Military Times<\/i> reader respondents (within the bonds of the trustworthiness of any online survey) seem set against Trump’s “Mine Is Bigger Than Yours” parade, considering it a “waste” and that the troops are already “too busy.”<\/p>\n

You know who parades around and shows off their soldiers and tanks and missiles? Countries who are afraid that others don’t respect them, and who want to impress others that they, too, have great, big, throbbing weaponry.<\/p>\n

I would argue that it actually weakens<\/i> American military prestige to resort to tactic.<\/p>\n


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I am gratified that a vast majority (89%) of Military Times reader respondents (within the bonds of the trustworthiness of any online survey) seem set against Trump’s “Mine Is Bigger Than Yours” parade, considering it a “waste” and that the troops are already “too busy.” You know who parades around and shows off their soldiers … Continue reading “Parade of Mights”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,349,380,1071],"tags":[1426,1077],"class_list":["post-135868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-military","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-trump","tag-penis-envy","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/unnamed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134748,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/course-donald-trump-wants-military-parade-4th-july.html","url_meta":{"origin":135868,"position":0},"title":"Because OF COURSE Donald Trump wants a military parade on the 4th of July","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Sep-17 3:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean, if the Russians (and even the French!) do it, why wouldn't Donald want to have a big military parade of his very own? 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