“Conservative” Erick Erickson suggested Thursday that folks at all levels of our military are so outraged that they won’t have the chance to die in Syria as a result of President Trump pulling out that they might stage a coup to keep the war going.
“If we lived in a lesser country than our great nation, today is the day we really would be talking about a military coup,” Erickson tweeted. “Soldiers down to the enlisted ranks are raising hell about the President’s Syria decision.”
If we lived in a lesser country than our great nation, today is the day we really would be talking about a military coup. Soldiers down to the enlisted ranks are raising hell about the President's Syria decision.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 21, 2018
Incidentally, not everyone agreed:
American conservatism, ladies and gentlemen. https://t.co/pbFaGlCrpO
— Tom Woods (@ThomasEWoods) December 21, 2018
"we hate being near our families & love being shot at, send us away or else!"
— Badger Dave (@badger_dave_) December 21, 2018
The soldiers are going to mutiny because their commander in chief is recalling them from an illegal occupation of a sovereign nation continents away from the homeland they are supposed to protect ? Naah, down with the military Industrial complex and the endless wars for elites.
— Seth Ginsberg (@GinsbergSeth) December 21, 2018
Having a Cousin in Afghanistan I can tell you that our troops are sick and tired of being over there fighting for absolutely nothing.. Let them fight for their own countries…
— DaddyO (@Skoally14) December 21, 2018
i find it very hard to believe a majority of our troops want us to stay in the middle east. That's not at all the reaction I get from those who have been there — they all think it's a clusterfuck and a massive waste of time for us
— Jᴀqᴇn H'ghᴀr (@RealFacelessMan) December 21, 2018
I did 8 years in the military. Not a single friend I have in the military or served with wants us still in Syria.
— Fidei Defensor (@HeadRusch) December 21, 2018
I have several family members on active duty. Not one of them is upset about withdrawing from Syria. And they are looking forward to not being redeployed to Afghanistan.
— Just Sally ☔️ (@TheFunWest) December 21, 2018
Erickson later claimed he wasn’t advocating for a coup but merely saying our country is so great because “we live in a stable democracy where the military can disagree and still carry out orders.”
He also said everyone criticizing him is a Russian bot:
My Twitter mentions suggest the internet troll farm in Moscow is going at full steam at 7:24am Moscow time right now.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 21, 2018
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