A Parade for Trump
The last American military parade that I saw was the inauguration of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 – not counting my days in the US Army. It was a hell of a show. What impressed me the most was the giant M65 203mm Atomic Cannon that was wheeled up Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue.
I was also deeply impressed by Gen. Eisenhower. There was no huff or puff with him, no wildly inflated claims, no bluster, no efforts to lay the groundwork for a military-run regime. None of what the Soviets used to call ‘Bonapartism.’ Just a real soldier who served America proud and became our finest president of modern times. I still like Ike.
But I also detest militarism and fake patriotic warmongering. Every spring I walk the blood-soaked battlefields of World War I in France and am sick at heart by the botchery and stupidity of the first great modern war. Having been a GI and covered 14 wars and conflicts as a news correspondent, I hate all form of militarism, flag-waving and patriotic o
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