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Though Kelly has just a bit of nutter in him, from what I've read about him.
Other than taking a job and then CoS for Trump, what makes him a bit of a nutter?
He's got a little Boston in him, but I heard nothing but exceptional word from those I know who have served with him.
Maybe I'm being too hard. I did include him in the list of rational, good people.
But he's a bit of a super-hawk (Syria, Libya, North Korea, et al) and a super hawk at the ear of Trump just raises my blood pressure slightly, even an honorable super-hawk.
His language is often dark.
And if I had to pick one quote, it's this one:
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Since 1945, no one in the U.S. military has liked the end result of the military conflicts we’ve been in: Vietnam, Korea, certainly Iraq, and probably Afghanistan,” Kelly said in a 2015 discussion at the Pacific Council on International Policy. “But in a democracy, you salute. You suck it up. . . . You cannot act.’
Forgetting the issue that he apparently wanted to stay in Vietnam, Korea, and Iraq longer which in itself could be considered nutty (though possibly just a disagreement in policy)......what he's talking about is the military can't overthrow the civilian governments when the stupid pussy civilian leaders end the war too soon or mismanage the war. He was lecturing coup-happy Central-American countries.
The slightly nutty thing to me is that he makes it sound like that, as worded, it takes a lot of conscious effort for him not to act. He has to suck it up. To not overthrow the Federal governments of Eisenhower, Nixon, or Obama. ."
Maybe I'm reading too much into that. He gives the right answer after all. I just got the slightest twinge.