@Evil Rev - As is usual with you guys, everything you say (or write, here) is a broad-based slogan, could fit on a button or a banner, and is bereft of specifics; it always seems to be about emotionally lashing out, in anger and bitterness, with no hint that you understand any issues in depth or are prepared to write about them. Politics has often been called, "the art of the possible" but your attitude is anything but; it presents itself as nothing except argumentative, destructive and nihilistic at its heart... and you even present yourself, at the outset here, as "Evil".
I will simply vote AGAINST each and every single candidate that has NOT openly denounced the Trump movement. That said, I will vote FOR any person who has the GREATEST CHANCE of defeating that candidate. This is an all out battle at the ballot box for our country in its existential threat from autocratic rule by insane people with zero heart and soul. I recommend you to keep it simple and do the same. Denounce the Trump movement above all other concerns.
Re: Jan 6. He dropped the ball with the both side Ianguage. Only one party stormed the capitol. We will never get through this as long as our leaders are afraid to look at their right wing brothers and hold them to account.
What about the storming, looting and craven attacks in America on May 29, 2020? One party and their enablers continue to look the other way regarding what happened on that date.
@@BILLEON2005 Methinks you are mistaken, the republicans are the ones that are creating all this mayhem with good old trumpie at the helm. None so blind as those who will not see. Let’s hasten the day when the old dotard is hoisted by his own petard. He is a vicious snake, who said and I quote: ‘You knew what I was when you let me in……..enough said
He is the single best modern general that has ever existed but as a veteran myself, I can say his unprofessionalism was not something the president could sweep under the rug. Worse than that I believe he could have won the war, I personally feel like he let his troops, the Afghans, and the American people down. I think it was an honest mistake but his mistep cost us so much. I'm no fan of that damn reporter either, hopefully that reporter comes to realize how much he cost the world. Oh well, it is what it is.
This is absolutely hands-down the best analysis of the reality of the current status of the United States. He is direct honest fair open and states the problem exactly as it is.
@@timothykozlowski2945 Please read Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean. At least the intro and the conclusion if you don't want to read or listen to the whole book.
we need to "get out of our tribal camps and interact". Bingo! Give this guy another medal! Or elect him to high office. Thank you for your service, General.
In theory, I agree. But in practice, it's difficult to interact with people who call you a "demonrat" because you support basic public health policy like masks and vaccines. Trump and many of his followers want to retake the White House in 2024 for one reason and one reason only: to punish Democrats. Not sure yet what that means, but it doesn't sound good.
@@jackboone6794 that's a q fantasy, sweetie. Trump eliminated the position of the CDC virologist in the Wuhan lab, who would have alerted the US about COVID-19 in 2019, long before it blew up. But TFG had to dismantle that, and the pandemic response team, and ignore the pandemic playbook, because TBG did all of that.
I completely disagree with McChrystal's opinion that not all of those who attacked our Capitol on 1/6 were bad people just because they thought they were doing the right thing. Thinking you are doing the right thing is not the deciding factor in where you are wrong or are a law breaker. Thinking you are doing the right thing is not a valid defense to criminal activity. Everyone who attacked the Capitol and refused to accept the results of a valid election broke the law. Good or bad is not the right distinction. Guilty or not guilty is. If they are guilty then they are bad by definition....
I would say they were not ALL bad people, BUT they made some terrible decisions that are against the law and dangerous - and hopefully they suffer the consequences. And even more, I hope those around Trump who supported that (Cruz, McConnell, etc) also take responsibility/lose political power.
The U.S. is a backward nation. Awash in guns, brutal criminal justice system, no universal public health care system, racial inequality... and now fascism.
If that’s true, where is the alternative energy which Tesla created? Bought out by corporate interests who were not going to change. Where are the fast trains, the Magnetic levitation that is already used in Japan, China and Europe? Why is fracking and coal mining still more common than the use of technology using magnets to support wind and solar power generation? People in America drink poisoned water?
And then he world said never let this happen in America..well all it took was one malignant morally evil narcissist to say Hatred and Greed is good..An here we are..Evil prevails when good decent people sit back and do nothing..
Absolutely right. Evil happen when good men and women do nothing. So who are these no doers? Republicans across the beard, evangelical frauds and others. The right nutcases want to destroy the world and america
24 (AN)“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and (AO)money.[f]
You are entitled to believe what you want. To me this is another example of media parading a representative for the military/industrial complex. You see the name of the corporation he has behind him? The only thing I will salute the General for is that he does not hide who he is working for.
@@azul8811 What is your opinion Oddvard? Do we strong arm Americans into getting an unvetted medical procedures while allowing tens of thousands of untested, unvaccinated illegals to cross the border and then using the military to transport them all over the country? There's over 100,000 on their way here right now.
As an African American who is left of center, not quite a moderate, I am wondering about how many ex-republicans, anti-Trump Republicans and right leaning moderates there really are compared to the pro-Trump crowd? The reason I ask, with a fear that there are far fewer than what we may hope, is the behavior of Republican politicians towards Trumpism at large. If the right political base was not so pro-Trumpish ( or as pro authoritarian, if personalities not the key factor of the base voter motivation) the politicians would speak against Trump much more forcefully, would they?
@esobed1 - please read Democracy in Chains, by Nancy MacLean; at least the intro and the conclusion. There is a deliberate effort being made by the wealthiest oligarchy (including Kochs) to mis-inform in an effort to reduce faith in government, so the oligarchs can decrease medicare, end social security, and continue to support liberty... Liberty for the land-owning/controlling oligarchs.
Bill Maher's prediction on Oct 8 was 1) Trump flunkies will win Republican primaries and win control of the House in 2022, 2) Trump will run for President in 2024 and get Republican nomination, 3) Trump flunkies will control state legislatures in swing states and award electoral delegations to Trump regardless of vote tallies.
Ive been saying that for 5 years. I dont need generals rank , a think tank , or write a book to figure that out. Just a sense of history , education, and some patriotism
@@Rnankn im not knocking books ,im knocking people in positions of power that exploit writing books ,as a greed factor. Books are knowledge, knowledge is power, NO ONE can ever take that away
Does "helping countries ... better" mean NOT relying on contractors to fight our battles for us, and maybe more closely monitoring military personnel for sociopaths and grifters? Because those should be REQUIRED going forward.
True but America will also need civilian governments that are clear about why they are in a country and what they hope to achieve and then make a clear and consistent plan and strategy to achieve that. Also be aware how long it will really take and how much it will cost and be prepared to stay the course and do what it takes. As an example Mr Biden blamed the Afghan civilian governments corruption of American funds to the country as a big part of the failure. So, why did America not set up a general auditors office and corruption courts under US control? After all America has the right to protect its money and ridding a country of corruption is real nation building.
@@joedellaselva1251 Pat Tilman was cannon fodder in a war that never should have happened. 20 years for nothing but death and division. Think Joe Della Selva! Great athlete, and hero, yes!
@@matthewwillis4892 Please research General McChrystal's involvement in the cover-up. Tilman was killed by friendly fire but the Army did not want the public to know this for PR reasons. There were other Army officers involved but McChrystal signed off on the concocted story of Tilman being killed during a fire fight with the enemy. Subsequently, I am hesitant to believe much of what McChrystal has to say on any subject matter......especially when he is trying to sell a book. His integrity/honesty is compromised. Watch 'The Tilman Story' from 10 years ago. It's available on RU-vid if you agree to the ads.
@@joedellaselva1251 If it was any one but Tilman this wouldn't even matter, football players are sensationalized gods. Servicemen get killed all the time from friendly fire or other stupid reasons. It doesn't mean they are any more or less not hero's where or how they fell. They are hero's for their dedication of service.They tried to give the guy some honor for his poor fans and family, which happens. I agree McCrystal is no angel, he's right on about Trump. Trump is a Terrorist !
Straight to the point, sharp analysis. Great interview. So thankful that the gen. is able to put things in a right perspective. Especially on Afghanistan. To be honest, I came to exactly the same conclusion without being a general or former Sec. of State, HC, who has the same view. I just thought it was pretty obvious what options Biden had.
You and Gen McChrystal are being too soft on Mr Biden for his withdrawal from Afghanistan. He left behind thousands and thousands of desperate people who had worked with, supported and trusted America - not to mention Americans - with the whole world watching. Abroad thete is deep sceptizism that there was nothing Mr Biden could have done. Now he is in Asia telling everyone to ally with US against China. And Asians are looking at Afghanistan and thinking, "seems a bit dangerous to ally with US. You could get left behind and dropped in the lap of the Taliban, when US tires of it all."
@tamalia Come one. Biden only had a few months to organise evacuation after the US had betrayed the Afghan under Trump. The previous administration had years to take people out. Instead they brought the visa processing to a halt!
This is a very bad person. As army commander in afghan, week ends in Europe, bad tactics out in the country side. And promoted Flynn to be intelligence head there. I repeat, this is a bad guy.
@@larselder874 Is it possible he has recognized his own mistakes in his past and has learned from them? Someone needs to do a full interview, to find out if he owns his past errors.
Our spending is used to create a multi role force that can be used anywhere. All China or Russia has to do is tailor their forces for immediate and well-defined goals. Russia does not need to patrol the south pacific with aircraft carriers and submarines and China does not need an advanced mechanized army on the central european plains.... But the US and Allies must be concerned with both of these things and more.
I saw a tactical analysis and it’s about China having larger range to project outward from their own base of power, whereas a US force would have limited defences at sea, vulnerable supply lines across the pacific, and would have to run operations from some distance away in less fortified guam or japan. But the wild cards are space war, cyber war and unconventional weapons - so who really knows.
@@Rnankn Have you read Unrestricted Warfare by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui? Our thinking about warfare and defense spending needs to change. A lesson from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was that stinger missiles/ launchers, that cost tens of thousands of dollars brought down hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Soviet aircrafts. We can't spend to win, is one of our many, many lessons from our adventures in the Middle East and Vietnam.    
They didn't develop and invent anything. They stole the majority of the advances in technology the US has built on since WW2. When I was in engineering school, the majority of foreign students were chinese. China has went balls to the wall to develop and push military advancement at the expense of environmental destruction and personal freedom so they can be in the position they are now. They think because they're the oldest civilization still intact, that they should be at the top of the food chain.
Fox Nzi Newz plays 24/7 in every mess hall in every military base🤬 It's BLARING in ears every lie from an Australian & a SAUDI PRINCE! WHY ARE WE ALLOWING FOREIGNERS TO DICTATE WORLD NEWS TO AMERICANS⁉️
You're right ‼️ Fox Nzi Newz BLARES their right wingnut crap in EVERY SINGLE ARMY NAVY MARINES barracks & mess halls ‼️ When Tucker myopic 🤡 tells you he LIES, BELIEVE HIM!!
Just like the people who MOST need psycho-therapy will never go, the people who need to hear Gen McChrystal won't listen to this program. (btw - there's a LOT of overlap in those two groups).
@@jacobkeller29 yeah,after Gen Stanley McChrystal had his problem with the Pat Tillman/friendly fire(assasination) "cover-up," (Gen Flynn was involved there, too) He absolutely turned his butt around.. ..after he got it bit off by Fox News, and he learned ...first hand.... ..the damage they've done to The United States of America, and it's Military.
Trump has not participated in a well regulated forum. The Presidential debates are hyped up as being issues oriented. In reality they are a platform to advertise the candidate. Trump should have been penalized by moderators for things he said in the debates such as ad hominems. Clear logical fallacies must be immediately dealt with.
@@albirtarsha5370 Agree. The "debates" couldn't have been more sloppy, and more favorable to a pathological liar, who is never held accountable in effective ways.
So interesting as it coincides with a document I am currently working on comparing the ‘parallels between historical influence nazism / fascism and current extremes of what is happening in the USA!
God's work! My supremely limited understanding of interwar Europe is that it was bursting with socioeconomic problems after their rough defeat in the great war. Every domino effect cascade starts with a domino!
Interesting to hear the General talk about the parallels between nazism/fascism and the situation in the US today. Many of us have been seeing that as well. The real question is what to do about it. There are significant forces pushing the extreme including Chump and most of the GOP party, FOX and right wing media, evangelical religion, and some very wealthy individuals who are funding propaganda organizations. Speaking out is one thing. But counteracting a massive, organized, and well funded effort to spread lies, misinformation, outright propaganda, and co-opted institutions such as some state governments is very difficult to do.Seemingly the best alternative is multiple legal challenges to Chump and the GOP. But the legal process is so very very very slow. Meanwhile the damage continues to mount and mount.
I’ve heard people say the rise of Mussolini is a better comparison. My enduring suspicion is that xenophobic nationalism wasn’t some aberration of germans going crazy. I suspect there is a tendency, or risk, in advanced liberal democracies for the working class to radicalize when under duress. And this occurs through mass media (now social media) as some kind of primitive psychological defence manifests a groupthink strengthening primary social identities: nation and race.
@@Rnankn : Mussolini was caught attempting a run for the border. Shot, and hung upside down with his mistress. Their bodies brutally abused by their own countrymen and women. ..... just a couple of days before Hitler ... " went to be with Jesus." What the US citizens like Bannon and his ilk saying " tear it all down " ought to hold in mind is the horrendous cost to so many that preceded those inevitable outcomes.
@@Rnankn the “leader” gives them a scapegoat, a common enemy on whom to pin all their grievances. That’s what TFG did with Mexicans, Haitians, Build a Wall, cut social programs, all attacks against the common enemy, the Minorities, and “illegal aliens!” So he tapped into their grievances, their hate, their bigotry and white supremacy, and he winds them up anytime they’re beginning to cool down and think rationally. He knows what he’s doing. It’s all engineered.
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@@MeanGeneSanDiego thanks grammar police, i could never have made sense of the derivation without your copy/paste from the dictionary. You’re a real life saver. Homonyms are hard for us mortals.
We've been doing some videos on the Afghan Govt, 2001-2021. The Gen. hits the nail on the head with regards to the options available to Biden. One thing we want to emphasize is how politically bankrupt the Afghan political system was. Their political system did not improve--it just kept getting worse.
General McChrystal is an Intelligent Vet.. This Man Responded to Every Sophisticated Question with Pure Wisdom.. I listened very closely to every word of question and answer.. All very important stuff.. Not once in any way could I find myself in disagreement with General McChrystal. All True Patriotic Americans should take his word as Very Good Advice moving forward.. Thank you to Both of These Men for the Educated Wisdom you Both Shared. I Truly Hope as many Americans as Possible, stopped, listened and took it in. We have some difficult choices we are now facing.. But we cannot afford to drop the ball. These choices should be made on the grounds of Wisdom as we just witnessed in this segment... For The Sake of our country.. We must get it right..
@@timothykozlowski2945 no Tim your "new fangled political correctness" is not allowing you listen to a General on how to band together to defeat an enemy. What would you have done if you were Drafted into the Service during the Vietnam War? WW2? etc. This is a war as seen by this General. How do you think Ike Eisenhower would have handled this...or even Ronald Reagan? Perhaps folks failed to show up when their Country needed them during Covid...is that possible? Certainly debatable I would think.History will be harsh on those that don't answer the call.
As Martin Luther King said....“We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."
It’s ironic you bring up MLK who this past year it was openly suspected to be assassinated by coordinating FBI/CIA efforts who were under LBJ a Democrat president after the JFK assassination…. Makes ya think….
@@BILLEON2005 - No it doesn't. I don't think about wild unsubstantiated rumors of which there are MILLIONS... my life is only so long, consisting of just a relative handful of precious days and hours and I'm surely not gonna waste them in the useless way that you suggest.
@@BILLEON2005 - Yes it's becoming apparent that you spend a great deal of time "imagining" about rumors and speculations that you have little evidence for, and no knowledge of, one way or the other that will, in the end, leave you in a state of profound ignorance... unless of course I'm wrong...
As far as the roll out of early covid information, I would emphasize that dithering and disinformation vs seemingly incongruous official advice are two separate issues. The first was deliberate use of political chaos - the second was more to do with trying to literally launch a vaccine rocket in mid-air; as it was being built. Vaccines take time because we need to complete double blind trials. So the military analogy here that works best for me is that its like having to rapidly change course in the middle of a complex field of battle - so EVERYONE; both officers and soldiers MUST be able to change-up on a dime. Hard to do when we are so divided, and some won't even 'accept' the information.
Wow, what a smart man, I am so very glad we have these kinds of people to protect and defend my country. I hope others like him and Colin are inline to protect us in the future.
Unfortunately, Colin Powell is deceased and unable to protect us. It is up to the people to listen and read history and learn from it. The Retired General is a wise and articulate man. The problem is the far right Trumpets won’t listen to anyone other than their co-conspirators.
Appreciate General McChrystal’s clear eyed view on the pandemic and how the US can best address it, as well as his views on a radicalized republican party. Also appreciate how fair he was regarding President Biden and how tricky withdrawal from Afghanistan can be. However, I’m not so sure keeping troops in Afghanistan would be the best plan going forward.
I also see the same things as the general. The really sad part is if a very strong message is not sent, we, the American people, will see this over and over again. Harsh sentencing is absolutely necessary.. I just don't think Americans have the balls to treat white americans as they would foreigners doing the same thing. We went to war with Germany and the middle-east over this type of thinking. The world is watching...
I don't recall President Trump wanting to ban guns, reimagine the police, and banning unvaccinated people from public places. Strange that Nazi Germany did that to their own people.
@@timothykozlowski2945 Who is looking to ban guns? How are police being reimagined? As for vax, Hitler favored unvax and vitamins/supplement for boosting health. Now consider racism. Rs and Nazis check. Xenophobia again check. Trying to use the law and democratic institutions to gain position, then change both to keep position. Check. Inciting mob violence while taking a position of plausible deniability as speaker though cowardly not doing the nefarious actions. Check. Assaulting others that disagree. Check. Snuggling up with foreign strongmen. Check. Backstabbing. Check. Expulsions of any not pure on ideology expressed. Check. Guess with those last two, the right does in fact have analogy with the Jacobins too.
McChrystal is nuanced and informative. I like that he has his own opinions and gives his support where he wants to, rather than parroting mindless talking point like the trump-supporting generals.
Anyone who doesn't see "Parallels Between Jan. 6 and Nazi Germany" along with a variety of other recent events then they aren't paying attention. This stuff is rhyming (as it often does).
I’ve seen it coming for years. Study Germany after WWI, especially after the 1923 Putsch, and Hitler’s Mein Kampf. It’s like 1933 Germany here and now.
During the 1st Chump campaign(before he was "elected"), my grandma was in hospice(93, 4 broken vertebrate - inoperable), but her mind was as sharp as an obsidian knife. She was a news junkie, always had her TV on one news station or another (she liked to hear both sides). I visited her a couple times a week, and one day (during the campaign) I walked into her room & noticed the TV was off. I asked her if she wanted it on, and she replied feebly, yet forcefully & said, "NO! He'll be on there & he sounds just like Hitler, and I remember Hitler!" She died before the voting started.
@@teresalegler2777 Yes an 'Existential Threat' as recently noted by The Gray Lady's Editorial Board. Thank Goodness for the Democratic Party with Nancy, Chuck and Maxine!
