Discussion: Meet The Foreign Policy Guru Behind Carson's Syria Gaffe

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Another wacko Republican nutter, advising a nutter Republican candidate! No surprise here.

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The really sad part is the number of ass kissing jackasses this fool help become “leaders” in the military. Not something I really want to be part of anymore.

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So, is Common Core a more existential threat than the imaginary sleeper cell in the imgainary city of Greensboro, SC?

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Coddled by a lifetime of military socialism paid for with tax dollars from civilians, the general thinks he knows something about the outside world, which does not by the way really give a shit how many stars he had on his uniform. (I was a military combat officer for 10 years & have seen my share of these self righteous narcissists, who by no means represent the majority of military members or veterans.)

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I can’t keep up with the flow of crazy. Next week it will come out that Carson is being advised by Nancy Reagan’s astrologer and the wing nuts will swoon.

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Corruption has always been a part of the military.
Dees comment about the soldier being “right with God” is the tipoff that he spends time in C.Springs, a military hotbed of evangelism. Also, when did that bastard “visit” an intelligence center in VA? "Shortly after 9-11 could mean anything, he could have seen American troops in Afghanistan connecting with their love ones in the states. Jeeze, he should read how people just like him led to the downfall of Rome, not that we should not cheer such an occurrence.

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This is precisely the sort of ignorant, dangerous, and anti-American person in the US that ought to be tracked 24/7.

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Oh wonderful.
Another RWNJ ‘end-times’ adviser who expresses strategies in terms of ‘good and evil’.
Can we get this flameout over with please?

EDIT: Dees has been riding the RWNJ Xtian gravy train for a dozen years.
All you need to know from Wiki:

Dees in 2015 was the “main national security adviser” to presidential candidate Ben Carson. Dees has argued a theme that has been adopted by Carson linking national security to spiritual values. Dees argues in Resilient Nations (2014) that the greatest threat to America is not terrorism or China or Russia but rather the decline of its "spiritual infrastructure.” Dees writes:

At the height of Roman decadence, good became evil and evil became good…One can rightly argue that the United States is frightfully close to a similar fate. Prayerfully, it is not too late.[5]

General Dees’ has also written a trilogy of books on resiliency. The books in the trilogy are Resilient Warriors, Resilient Leaders and Resilient Nations.[4]

jw1

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Just waiting for Carson to come out and advocate the rounding up of all Muslims ('cause ya can’t tell one from another & they are all really potential extremists) and put them in detention camps.

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we need to vet our military leaders a lot better…the gop must not gain any more power in our government…they will be our downfall…

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In other words, Mental Ben Carson is getting his “foreign policy advice” from a certified Christo-fascist lunatic, retired Maj. Gen. Robert Dees. Loons of a feather, flocking together.

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Great: another god-drunk grifting fabulist.

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Greensboro. It’s where ISIS is storing its grain.

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Thank you, Catherine. About 15 years ago, it was clear that something strange had happened in the officer’s corp. Given Dees’ retirement in 2003, he seems to be of the correct vintage. Dees’ Roman Empire analogy was particularly weird. Pax Romana lasted about 200 years and the decline of the Roman empire took at least another 200 years. It was a slow process. I guess our great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren better be worried.

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I’m sorry, but I am just at the end of my rope with these hair brained Islamophobes and the political crackpots who listen to them.
They will never make policy nor occupy public office, Thank goodness. Just let them all crawl back under whatever rocks they can, and let’s grow into a genuine discussion of actual government policies, made by rational, intelligent, and compassionate people.

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TPM:

Politico recently noted the parallels between Carson’s allusions to the Roman Empire and Dees’ writings. The introduction to the retired general’s 2014 book, “Resilient Nations,” reads: “At the height of Roman decadence, good became evil and evil became good. One can rightly argue that the United States is frightfully close to a similar fate.”

Okaayyy. Didn’t the Roman Empire fall as Christianity arose?

I’m just saying - maybe it wasn’t decadence, but Christian close-mindedness, bigotry against non-Christians, and biblical literalism that killed the Roman Empire. Maybe Christianity isn’t so good for maintaining a country’s cultural, technological, and military strength. It would explain why most countries become more advanced as their populations become less religious.

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I think these guys are about 400 years off. Seems more like we’re undergoing the transition from a (somewhat) democratic republic to a plutocratic empire, anyway.

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Here’s all you need to know about this religious wacko!
These so-called “religious warriors” are the main reason for so much permanent death and destruction around the war! Just look at Paris for a example!

“he is also the Associate Vice President for Military Outreach, Adjunct Professor, and Director of the nation’s first faith-based Institute for Military Resilience at Liberty University.”

http://www.liberty.edu/media/9934/documents/MG%20(R)%20Bob%20Dees%20Biography%2012.05.14.pdf

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The man is clearly thinking that we need to protect our Precious Bodily Fluids. He is a little scary, but mostly not too bright. When he mentions that he sees phone calls from Kandahar to Nashville, he sees infiltration. Any good military man should see opportunity, as in, “Now we have a source in Kandahar.” Silly man.

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