Retired Major General Paul Eaton Issues A Chilling Warning

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85. I sense and respect your passion about the mission of the military.

I was asking, in an apparently insensitive way for which I apologize, how high moral character and devotion to duty will prevail in the face of purges which Trump will conduct, interminably, until he gets his way?

I was thinking about a hypothetical discussion I had with a colleague who was a career army Pioneer. I asked him if the "trigger-pullers" he worked with would fire into a crowd of Americans on an American city street if so ordered? His initial response was a look of confusion, and he told me officers would never give such an order. After further talk on the matter, he acknowledged that there were some officers with whom he'd dealt who would probably give such an order. So, I pursued the line of hypothetical and asked if he thought the ranks would obey such an order. He said they would not. I redirected with the caveat that it required only a single trooper to fire a single gun at that crowd per his superior's orders to define the crux of this hypothetical dilemma. He said, in a line of 50 men, at least one would probably fire his weapon. Further, he related there seemed to always be someone willing to obey an order, no matter what it was. That all sounded about right, given my experience with human nature.