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A CNN panel was visibly disgusted Tuesday evening when news broke out of the Pentagon that President Trump had requested to have a military parade in Washington, DC similar to the Bastille Day parade he witnessed while in Paris, France. The panel was outraged as they tossed around denouncements and comparisons to the despots like those in North Korea and Russia.
“But, what are we really talking about here? There has not been a military parade typically by the U.S. military in many years. The last one really after Desert Storm in the 1990s,” wondered Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr during her report.
And Starr was very concerned about the cost, the possible damage to local infrastructure, and how the world would view the parade:
So it's going to be a difficult proposition. And it may be very controversial. The veterans have long wanted some kind of welcome home parade. This may be seen as something unduly militaristic overseas, may be seen as an expression of celebrating years of America's wars abroad … It is something, I don't know that anybody can predict how nations overseas, especially in the Middle East and Asia, might react to it all.
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