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Is There a Christian Nationalism Problem in the US Military?
Retired Air Force officer Mikey Weinstein says there is and is trying to separate church and state, but it might be too late
A few days before January 6th, 2021, all ten living former Defense Secretaries, including the uber-evil Dick Cheney, wrote a letter that was published in the Washington Post. These ten DC insiders, with connections to every branch of the American armed forces and the military-industrial complex, wrote in their op-ed that the military must stay out of the election.
The same day, Admiral James Stavridis, Supreme Commander of NATO and managing director of private equity giant Carlyle Group, penned a column for Time magazine supporting the letter by the Defense Secretaries. Even further, the Financial Times had an article about that same letter and claimed there was a coup in place.
Why did they all feel the need to speak out? Why were they warning the United States military to stay out of politics a few short days before there was an insurrection that saw mobs of seething right-wingers — many of them veterans — break into the Capitol Building looking to hang lawmakers and overturn the election results?
