Pic Of The Moment: Trump Introduces His New Chief-Of-Staff

[niyad]

1. THIS john kelly--what a . . . . one more deplorable in der drumpfenfuhrer's staff of horrors

He questioned President Barack Obama’s decision to open combat jobs to women.

In January 2016, the Pentagon said it was opening combat roles in the military to women. Kelly, who was heading up U.S. Southern Command at the time, expressed concern over the decision, namely that the military would have to lower its standards to accept women in these roles.

“There will be great pressure, whether it’s 12 months from now, four years from now, because the question will be asked whether we’ve let women into these other roles, why aren’t they staying in those other roles?" he told reporters around the time of the announcement. “If we don’t change standards,” he said, “it will be very, very difficult to have any numbers — any real numbers — come into the infantry, or the Rangers or the SEALs, but that’s their business.”


He oversaw the Guantanamo Bay prison.

As head of Southern Command, Kelly’s area of responsibility included the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he facilitated the prisoner swap for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, according to Defense One, a move he called “unusual.” He has swatted away criticism about inhumane treatment of prisoners, the New York Times reported. Force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike, for instance, was a humane approach, according to Kelly.

He also insisted that one of the arguments for closing the prison — that it serves as a recruitment or propaganda tool for terror groups — is a nonsense argument.“Bombing the living shit out of ISIS in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria, that would maybe irritate them more than the fact we have Guantanamo open,” he told Defense One.