Currently serving U.S. military leaders hardly ever condemn specific politicians. For Sen. Tommy Tuberville, they're making a dramatic exception.
for The Washington Post this week, pleading with him to be more responsible and explaining to the senator that he’s actively eroding “the foundation of America’s enduring military advantage.”, one of the service secretaries went a little further during a CNN appearance.
The leaders of three branches of the U.S. military slammed Sen. Tommy Tuberville over his monthslong blockade of senior military promotions Tuesday, with one accusing the Republican senator of “aiding and abetting communists.” “For someone who was born in a communist country, I would have never imagined that actually one of our own senators would actually be aiding and abetting communists and other autocratic regimes around the world,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro — a Cuban-born Navy veteran — said during the nationally televised interview.that Tuberville’s radical tactics are “having a real negative impact and will continue to have a real negative impact on our combat readiness.
To be sure, we’ve been building toward this point for much of the year, and a variety of voices from within the military have, with varying degrees of restraint, voiced related concerns about the GOP senator’s willingness to undermine his own country’s armed forces as part of a ridiculous anti-abortion tantrum.
In July, for example, Lt. Gen. Andrew Rohling, the deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Europe-Africa, met with a bipartisan group of senators and
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