Trump's final days try to turn the military into a political pawn

The Pentagon is not a happy place these days. The military has been dragged into political quarrels not of its making. Those include President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), as well as his determination to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany — and, who knows, perhaps South Korea — regardless of military advice and the tactical situation on the ground in each of those places.

Worst of all, Trump has not denied that he is giving serious consideration to retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s mad proposal to invoke martial law in order to overturn election results in battleground states where President-elect Joe Biden was the clear winner. That numerous workers in the five-sided building have contracted COVID-19 has hardly helped morale, either.