The case of Capt. Brett Crozier

[nairiporter]

There is a time when a leader needs to make a decision that will not play well for themselves but is the right thing to do. My assumption is that the captain knew the likely consequences. It's very likely that he had informed the chain of command about the situation on board. He balanced his career against the lives of his crew. Brave decision.

Only time and investigations will tell if it was the right choice. An ‘Acting’ Secretary is unable to exercise any judgement since an ‘acting’ anything is not qualified by Congress and is squarely under the power of this demented regime.

Loyalty of the service personnel is sworn to the Constitution, however every field officer knows that loyalty in reality is to the individual service personnel to his or her immediate officer or NCO.

This may signal the start of service personnel questioning their own loyalty to the Commander in Chief. The Russian Revolution happened when soldiers refused the order to fire on citizens.

Food for thought.

Ps. The way the captain was sent off by his crew, is quite telling. Apparently, it has got some feathers ruffled. Good for them.

Comments

[oportet]

There are rumors of reinstatement - while plenty of rumors tend not to be true, I'm not sure which 'sides' case would be helped by starting it, so I'm leaning towards believing it.

[johnny9fingers]

Trump hasn't quite worked out that some rational responses to the Covid19 problem aren't necessarily direct insults to him personally. (Though just being rational may be lèse magisté in the Trump administration - look at poor old Dr Fauci.)

I'd guess most folk on that ship were Trump supporters before this debacle; many of them might have wavered slightly after this.

You have four more years of this. Gerrymandered districting and pruning of the voter registers in the vital swing states will ensure it. I'd guess the Republicans should be happy in their victory; after all, party before country.

Unless, of course, Covid19 decimates the Boomers; then the demographics get skewed.

[oportet]

Trump has been lucky, in the sense that everyone the dems have gotten giddy about and paraded through the political talk show circuit the last 3 years in hopes of bringing him down has been a slimy partisan piece of shit. This captain seems like he could have been the exception, like he could actually reach folks in both bubbles. Best to get him back on the boat and let the left latch on to someone more...Avennati-ish.

[johnny9fingers]

Well the Don has been fireproof up to now. So I guess it's time for the GOP to circle the wagons and begin to see how they can both protect the chances of re-election and get things done without needing too much input from Trump's actual administration.

Difficult task, if not impossible, if Trump's lost most of the swing voters over Covid19. I think it's down to Tom Cruise and the chaps to pull the Don's irons from the fire here; but as we know, the Dems can screw any advantage they have been given, so it's never over etc...