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According to John Keker, who served and was injured as an infantry platoon commander during the Vietnam War, it has been a difficult year to hold his usual Memorial Day remembrance due to what he calls President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201creckless misuse of the military.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs the Trump administration slashes Department of Veterans Affairs services and fires principled military leaders, we are seeing it commit the same mistakes and incompetence that got us deployed in forever wars going back to Vietnam,\u201d writes Keker in the San Francisco Chronicle<\/u>. “Trump, who famously avoided military service in Vietnam thanks to five deferments, has started a war in Iran without input from Congress or serious public discussion, and it\u2019s clear he didn\u2019t plan for the inevitable backlash. It is a war of choice with no clear objective, no carefully mapped-out strategy, and an ever-shifting exit plan. As almost every veteran knows, war should always be the last resort, not the first.\u201d<\/p>\n

This war, says Keker, was launched with a confusing lack of foresight. For example, Trump \u201cdid not seem to comprehend the likelihood of the Strait of Hormuz being shut down,\u201d even though it was the likely outcome suggested by his top advisors. What\u2019s more, Trump\u2019s actions have killed thousands, including a strike on a girls\u2019 school that killed over 100 students, which \u201cmakes little sense given that Trump\u2019s initial justification for launching the war was to help the people of Iran<\/u>.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of this, says Keker, is part of a \u201clarger pattern\u201d of military abuse. <\/p>\n

\u201cSince early last year,\u201d he explains, \u201cTrump has expanded military operations abroad without meaningful congressional oversight or public debate. He has approved bombings in Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Iran, Venezuela, the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. He has used the military in American cities to deal with emergencies that don\u2019t exist. He tries to politicize our military to fight battles against Americans whom he calls \u2018the enemy within.\u2019 He told a gathering of high-ranking officers at the Quantico Marine Corps Base \u2018we should use some of these dangerous cities\u2019 \u2014 specifically Democratic-run ones \u2014 \u2018as training grounds for our military.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Keker says this all feeds into Trump\u2019s attempt to \u201cput himself above the law,\u201d an effort Keker says Americans must and can \u201cresist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have faith in the will of the American people to push back against autocrats,\u201d he asserts. \u201cThe resistance in Minneapolis to Trump\u2019s deployment of immigration agents is a good example. We should all insist that Congress reclaim its power over the use of force domestically and in war abroad, support state and local leaders who stand up to Trump and urge the military to stay loyal to the Constitution by refusing illegal orders.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is up to those who have served in the military, he says, to push back.<\/p>\n

\u201cVeterans who risked their lives in combat have a lifelong commitment to protect our community and our country,\u201d Keker concludes. \u201cWe know better than anyone the tremendous human and financial cost of war, and we must call out and oppose the misuse of the military. We need to lead the resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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