Our military isn’t to be political. Our Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, is making it so. One could be excused for concluding that the Squad is running the Defense Department as it does the Democratic Party.
In a CNN interview, Austin tried to rebut claims that the military is “soft” because of its embrace of wokeness. No, he’s dangerously wrong. Secretary Austin is undermining the most important asset of a fighting unit: the willingness of its members to sacrifice for each other. Tell me how cramming down the throats of our fighting men and women racist and identity-mongering screeds will lead to combat effectiveness.
(Read about the interview here.)
Treason is defined as making war on the United States. This isn’t treason, but it has the effect of treason. It destroys the ability of the country to defend itself by dividing the troops into squabbling camps of identity groups.
The Navy came out with a reading list for the “growth and development” of sailors that included Ibram X. Kendi’s extremist tirade, “How to Be an Antiracist”. The Navy’s Second Fleet created a book club for discussing and reading Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”. Vice admiral Andrew L. Lewis, you should be ashamed of yourself. These are extremist left-wing spiels that are being normalized in the ranks.
Austin uses the left-wing jargon of “look like America” which in reality will compete with competence. Do you want an engineer “to look like America” or do you want a bridge that won’t collapse under your car? This is not only nonsense; it’s dangerous nonsense when it’s given a stamp of approval from the top.
The Army is running ads about “Heather has Two Mommies” in the ranks. What effect does all this identity obsessiveness have on morale? It produces nothing good. A constant refrain that encourages prickliness is a threat to the nation, and is not just another policy choice. For this reason alone, Austin is deserving of censure.
He may want a military that “looks like America”, but it won’t look, or act, like an effective fighting force. See, Lloyd, looks can be deceiving.
RogerG