Emails Reveal Disturbing Way Obama Views Military Generals
By: Ben Marquis
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sparked quite a bit of ire from Democrats and their mainstream media allies recently when he quipped during a military forum that President Barack Obama had reduced our military leadership “to rubble.”
But while the left attacked Trump and deliberately twisted his comments into a supposed attack on the military, what he actually said was nothing new. It has, in fact, been a topic of discussion for several years with regard to the tension between Obama and the U.S. military.
Seemingly confirming what Trump said were leaked email exchanges from Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, formerly Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and of the U.S. European Command, that revealed some of Obama’s negative feelings and those of the generals serving under him, according to The Daily Caller.
The emails were obtained from his private Gmail account by unknown hackers and released publicly by a group calling itself DCLeaks, the same group that recently published reams of hacked emails and internal documents from billionaire leftist George Soros.
One particularly revealing exchange took place between Breedlove and Harlan Ullman, a senior adviser to the Atlantic Council, in which a discussion was being arranged between the general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
On Sept. 30, 2014, Breedlove wrote to Ullman, “My first ask of (Powell) though is to help me break through to re-energize interest in Europe/NATO in general. I think POTUS sees us as a threat that must be minimized, i.e. do not get me into a war.”
In a later email to Powell, presumably part of the aforementioned discussion that was arranged, Breedlove wrote, in part, “I may be wrong … but I do not see this WH really ‘engaged’ by working with Europe/NATO. Frankly I think we are a ‘worry’… i.e. a threat to get the nation drug into a conflict … vice an ‘opportunity’ represented by some pretty stalwart allies. I seek your counsel on two fronts … how to frame this opportunity in a time where all eyes are on ISIL all the time … and two … how to work this personally with the POTUS.”
In a separate email exchange from the same time period, during which Russia annexed Crimea with virtually no opposition from the U.S. except for some strong words, Ullman messaged Breedlove with some words of encouragement.
“I met the new E.U. ambassador to the U.S. David O’Sullivan,” Ullman wrote. “I pitched him on the need for him to impress on Washington the strategic importance of Europe which seems to be a six-letter expletive in the White House.”
It is no secret that there has been palpable tension between Obama’s White House and the top brass of the military, which has been previously revealed through Obama’s purge of commanders who disagreed with him or through generals publicly testifying to Congress about what has really been going on with Obama’s micromanagement and social justice tinkering with the military.
There should no longer be any question that Obama has deliberately “reduced to rubble” the leadership of a military that he seemingly viewed as a threat to his own administration. Perhaps there is a reason for that.