Trump's West Point Mafia

Here is wisdom from TomDispatch:

As TomDispatch regular, West Point graduate (class of 2005), and retired Army Major Danny Sjursen explains in remarkable detail today, while the president finally tossed “his” generals in the nearest trash can, the “adults” (and you do have to keep that word in quotation marks) didn’t, in fact, leave the toddler alone in the Oval Office. They simply militarized and de-militarized at the same time. In fact, one class from West Point, that of 1986, from which both Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo graduated, is essentially everywhere in a distinctly militarized (if still officially civilian) and wildly hawkish Washington in the Trumpian moment.

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http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176686/tomgram%3A_danny_sjursen%2C_trump%27s_own_military_mafia_/

I don't see this as a purely Trumpian problem. A military junta has been running the US since World War II. The generals and admirals come and go, but the wars go on and on.

If I had to pick a motto for ALL of them, it would be "war is a racket".