xThis is when military officers present themselves as above politics - but using that itself as a political stance, to be beyond criticism /2— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 21, 2017 NY Times: Kelly, in Defending Trump Call, Holds Up Military as an Elite Class After his remarks, Mr. Kelly permitted only those reporters who knew families of dead service members, called Gold Star families, to ask questions. Phil Klay, a Marine veteran and the author of “Redeployment,” a collection of short stories about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he had little problem with most of Mr.