An Open Letter to Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster

An open letter to Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, currently serving in the White House as National Security Advisor to the President of the United States.

H.R. McMaster, you should be ashamed to repeatedly stand up in front of reporters and lie for the President. You used to command the finest cavalry regiment in the US Army, a regiment I was proud to serve in for two years. Now, I am ashamed for you and the regiment every time I see you sell your soul for a president without basic human decency, judgement or probity.

Maybe the Secretary of Defense took you aside and said, for the love of God, I need at least one adult in this joke of an administration, someone that can be counted on to do the right thing when it matters, and that’s why you’re still there. There’s no way to know.

All I know is that your oath as an officer, the same one I took so many years ago, is one that would not let me continue to serve a president so clearly unfit and dangerous as the one we have now.

If you have any love of country left in your heart, any semblance of honesty, any allegiance to your oath and regiment, you will resign before the ignominy and disgrace of working for Donald Trump marks you forever and lands you in the annals of those who chose profit and power over their fellow human beings.

Veteran you may be, bathed in blood and fire you may have been, but you are now nothing more than the base metal of hypocrisy and I am ashamed to call you Brave Rifle.

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