Trust the Military? Eh....Nope!

One of the few "trusted" entities in the US over the past several decades has been The Military.  People just thought that anyone in a uniform is a good guy, true-blue, on our side.

Well, The Military has managed to go the way of the FBI:  straight to the bottom.  Bannon says it out loud:

 ...Steve Bannon, who served President Donald J. Trump as chief White House strategist during the president’s first year in office, said that he met with Milley and other Pentagon leaders in order to get them on board with Trump's national security agenda, specifically regarding the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“I was the point person for President Trump in '17 on getting us out of Afghanistan,” the former Navy destroyer deck watch officer said.

“They had so much time to plan for the Afghanistan withdrawal,” he said. “Remember, we didn't get it done in '17, and the reason we didn't get it done in '17 is that they kind of pushed President Trump into a corner and lied to him.”

...Bannon said that in his experience with the Pentagon leadership, he was struck by the lack of candor and faithfulness to the facts.

The Pentagon was committed to keep operating in Afghanistan, he said.

“We were quite blunt to tell them they were wrong and what we were going to do, starting with getting out of Afghanistan, and Milley and these guys plotted from the beginning to thwart Trump,” he said.

“We extended it even more, and they swore every year: ‘Oh, it's only going to be five or 10 billion,’ it was like 40 or 50 billion every year just into a rat hole—just into a total rat hole driven by the defense industry and the greed of the defense industry,” he said.

“I hate to say this, as much as I love the military and the Navy, the military, DOD, the national security state will look you straight in the eye, and they will lie to you,” he said. 

“They will lie to you,” he said. “You sit there and ask the most basic questions, the most basic questions about operation, about costs, about projections, about what's going to happen. It's either through gross incompetence or you just get outright lies.”  --quoted at RedStates

Bannon is not alone in sussing out the Pentagon's gross insubordination and infidelity to the US.  There is a really good reason why recruitment is far, far, far, from its goals.

The reason?  Americans can add 2+2 and get 4, no matter how loud and fast the Generals lie.