Squirrel-Hair must never be president - today's edition

Actually serious national-security people see a certain, shall we say, underbaked-ness to his proposal for addressing jihad:

This Friday, retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling responded to 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump having boasted at an Iowa campaign rally a day earlier that he would “bomb the s*** out of ISIS” if he became president.

“If he persisted in saying ‘bomb it,’ I think what you would eventually have in the military across the board is mass resignations,” Hertling claimed during an interview with CNN host Carol Costello. “And that’s a tough stance to take, Carol, but truthfully, that’s what would occur.”

His point was that it would be immoral and illegal for the military to just randomly bomb the Middle East in the hope of wiping out terrorists. Such a move would potentially violate the Geneva Conventions, as well as lead to the deaths of millions of innocent men, women and children.

“There are people living there,” Hertling explained. “There are 11 million people in Iraq where the oil fields are, and not all of them are ISIS supporters. In fact, very few are.”

“They know the moral and the values implications associated with these kind of decisions,” he continued in regard to the military officials whom he believed would resign. “They will attempt to persuade their leaders the right approaches to take and the various options available. But they won’t do things illegally or immorally.”

Hertling also took a stab at Trump for claiming that he knows “more about ISIS than the generals do.”

“I’m trying to remain apolitical in this, but it’s increasingly difficult to do that when you hear these kind of statements of individuals who have not been there, who don’t know more than the generals do, and in many cases, don’t know more than the privates do,” Hertling said.

Given the harshness of what Hertling said, it appears Trump could have a lot more to worry about than just his spat with Ben Carson, because from the sound of it, he’s started a war with our military as well.

When I hear the immigration one-note-johnnies cite all the post-American ills stemming from the wholesale welcoming of floods of illegal aliens - and about that, they are not wrong; they are serious problems - and then say, "And you say Trump's the problem?", my response is, "Yes, he is one of the problems, just like illegal immigration, jihad, the overlords' obsession with the climate-change fiction, the rot of our culture and education system, the eclipsing of post-America on the world stage by Russia, China and Iran. They are all hair-raisingly alarming problems, and we cannot focus on one to the exclusion of the others."