Isn’t there some old saying that a fish rots form its head down?
We do not have a secret warrior world where our Soldiers are born and raised separate from the rest of our society. Our Soldiers come from our culture. If our society is strong, our Soldiers are strong. If our Society is weak, our Soldiers are weak. The young men and women entering the military have had 18 years of growing up in American society. Four years at a service academy will not fix someone whose ethics are broken. We think that the “anything goes” attitude in academia and entertainment and politics is fine, but we are shocked to see it in our military. We shouldn’t be. Quite frankly, a military that is too different from our society would be shocking. They would march to Hollywood and the universities and Washington, D.C. and slaughter the weak and different.
It’s hard for me to believe that the Military has all of a sudden gone bad. It’s much more believable that the NSA Electronic sweeps are uncovering information that is being used for political purposes.
In fact, it wouldn’t be beyond belief that some creative interpretation and downright manufacturing of evidence is going on.
It always has been. The problem is performance reports are absolute dishonest BS.
The operations and ethics of any organization, including the military services, reflect the views of those at the top. Obama and Hagel are the least qualified and most radically liberal guys to lead the military that we’ve had in memory. Social justice and social experimentation are the priorities now, not military readiness. Women on the front lines, homosexual freedoms, religious freedoms denied, etc. Obama is doing to the military the very same thing he promised he would do to the country when he was elected in 2008...fundamentally changing it from the greatest military force on earth to a weak, abbreviated version of it. He has decimated, not Al Qaeda, but our own military.