John F. Kelly Quotes
Hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Baghdad ain't shit.
He had been asked by a reporter if his Marines would be able to take Baghdad in the American invasion of Iraq, 2007. Kelly commanded the Marines charged with taking Baghdad. They did.
John F. Kelly, Statement to a reporter, before the attack on Baghdad, Iraq War, 2007
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Lincoln was opposing the Mexican War.
It was then customary to return with the head of a killed Samurai which would be made up as if in life so the dead man could be recognized. That way, the victor received more recognition with the importance of the Samurai who he defeated.
By the 21st century, there were few who would agree with Roosevelt on this point. The contributions of inventors and scientists and then business men and financiers.
While Mangin was disgustingly racist, many native soldiers from Senegal, Morocco and other French colonies were pleased that Mangin was not only advocating that they serve with the French Army, but the General was critical of the fighting spirt of the then contemporary Frenchmen and claimed that the “prmitives” would invigorate the French Army. Mangin’s view was adopted as policy and in the First World War, native colonial troops were an important component of the victorious French Army.
This would be like an American President firing the congressional chaplains. However this is only one small, but telling, example of Atatuk’s secularization of the nation which had a great deal to do with Turkey becoming a modern great power—by far the strongest and most developed of the Islamic world.
In contrast to the American army, there was no conscription in Canada. Note the quaint Canadian euphemism, "invited."
The Shakers were an American religion and pacifists Lincoln learned. He was so impressed with their sincerity and way of life that he exempted Shaker men from the draft—the first conscientious objectors formally recognized in America. However, Lincoln made the statement to the Shakers which greatly impressed them and caused much reflection. Quakers had been pacifists also, but until the Civil War Draft there was no mechanism to test.
John Francis Kelly is a board member at Caliburn International and a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served as the White House Chief of Staff for President Donald Trump from July 31, 2017, to January 2, 2019. He had previously served as Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration.
