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niyad
(112,064 posts)He questioned President Barack Obamas decision to open combat jobs to women.
In January 2016, the Pentagon said it was opening combat roles in the military to women. Kelly, who was heading up U.S. Southern Command at the time, expressed concern over the decision, namely that the military would have to lower its standards to accept women in these roles.
There will be great pressure, whether its 12 months from now, four years from now, because the question will be asked whether weve let women into these other roles, why arent they staying in those other roles?" he told reporters around the time of the announcement. If we dont change standards, he said, it will be very, very difficult to have any numbers any real numbers come into the infantry, or the Rangers or the SEALs, but thats their business.
He oversaw the Guantanamo Bay prison.
As head of Southern Command, Kellys area of responsibility included the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he facilitated the prisoner swap for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, according to Defense One, a move he called unusual. He has swatted away criticism about inhumane treatment of prisoners, the New York Times reported. Force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike, for instance, was a humane approach, according to Kelly.
He also insisted that one of the arguments for closing the prison that it serves as a recruitment or propaganda tool for terror groups is a nonsense argument.Bombing the living shit out of ISIS in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria, that would maybe irritate them more than the fact we have Guantanamo open, he told Defense One.
PatSeg
(46,559 posts)How long will this one last?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)PatSeg
(46,559 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Better yet, maybe Trump will HIRE Jim.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,605 posts)flygal
(3,231 posts)it's why I'm addicted to twitter!
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)How the hell you pull that off, I have no clue, but I think we all realized quickly that Mooch was not long for that job.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)leaked to whom? I think that Priebus was the major leaker, and he was not fired for leaking petty crap about WH staff and their antics. Trump likes crap such as that -- why fire a senior aide for it? Instead, I believe that Priebus was leaking WH strategy to Speaker Paul Ryan on #45's plans to pha-screw Ryan and McConnell. Mooch found Priebus' info pipeline to Ryan and got him "resigned". When COS Kelly finally gets a belly full of Trump and doesn't care if the prez is successful, Kelly will set up his own info pipeline to Ryan and McConnell; and, it will run through professionals that know how to protect a pipeline. The leaking is not going to stop because #45 deserves the leaks.
George II
(67,782 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)FIRED negative 15 days until official start date.
That's some world-class winning right there.
longship
(40,416 posts)Poor EarlG! Going to have to work overtime to keep up with these clowns.
Poor Drumpf. Things move fast when one is incompetent. Things are literally falling apart around him.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)This is quite a month.
2naSalit
(85,639 posts)he just says them bigly.