Posted on 09/29/2015 11:06:24 PM PDT by Vision Thing
The revelation that our generals expect Americans solders to allow screaming young boys to be sodomized and not stop it is simply the latest manifestation of the utter moral bankruptcy infecting the senior ranks of the U.S. military.
The problems with America’s military—which has now failed to win three wars in a row against backward fanatics whom the nineteenth-century Brits would have handily dispatched to hell in time for tea—are not merely budgetary. You can’t buy real leaders, leaders with strategic competence and moral courage. Aging equipment, while a problem, is nothing compared to the incompetence and moral cowardice of our military’s senior leaders.
Note the term “moral cowardice.” Many of these generals are decorated combat veterans who would gleefully charge an enemy machine-gun nest. But that physical courage in the face of the enemy does not translate into moral courage in the face of politicians and social justice warriors. It’s disheartening to see officers with Combat Infantryman badges and silver stars sheepishly nodding along with the lies of the coddled liberal elite.
There are fine generals—I served under many. But enough are not that the ranks are demoralized and the best and brightest future leaders are abandoning military careers, not because they don’t want to serve, but because they know it will be difficult to succeed unless they likewise abandon the principles that propelled them toward service in the first place.
You Can’t Just Blame Obama
It would be too easy to blame Barack Obama. As commander in chief, he is responsible for everything those under his command do or fail to do, and his political agendas and bizarre social engineering priorities, enacted by the eager band of loyalists he has promoted into the senior ranks over more capable warriors, have little to do with fighting and winning. Without a media interested in holding him to account for the dreadful performance of the military since his inauguration, Obama has a free ride.
It is not too much to expect our generals to care about winning wars and protecting their soldiers more than about getting that additional star.
Yet focusing on the feckless community organizer in the Oval Office just serves to let the generals off the hook. Obama cares nothing for the military, and no one expects him to. But it is not too much to expect our generals to care about their organizations, to care about winning wars and protecting their soldiers more than about getting that additional star.
The military certainly had a tough problem in Afghanistan. Within the military, the fact that many of our putative allies delight in raping kids was an open secret. On one hand, you can’t always expect your allies in Third World knifefights to be Eagle Scouts. On the other hand, we are talking about raping kids.
Choosing the Most Horrific Option
Without a doubt, the commander in Afghanistan could evaluate the situation, determine that we are not going to tolerate the rape of children, and instruct our troops to fire two warning shots into the sternum of anyone found doing so. In fact, in the spirit of decentralization that is the mark of a winning military, the commander could further emphasize that he is not putting a ceiling on the number of shots that could be fired—if the soldier on the ground thinks he needs to fire more rounds into the sternum of the pederast, that’s just good combat leader initiative. Soldiers have to decide whether to do what is right or do what their generals telegraph they want done but won’t say because they don’t want to be held accountable for it.
Sure, this may temporarily make some of our allies less willing to support us, but it is the morally right thing to do and, in the long run, it would send a powerful message that locals need to start appreciating the cultural norms of the people who traveled halfway around the world to save their sorry excuse for a country.
Alternatively, the American commander in Afghanistan could decide that our need for allies outweighs the need to prevent child rape, and clearly announce that our forces will do nothing to stop it when they see it. Sometimes, you need to accept the cultural mores of useful local forces, as deplorable as they are, and as soldiers you are expected to be disciplined enough to do so. Of course, that would raise certain uncomfortable questions back home, such as, “Mr. President, why the hell are your generals telling our troops to look the other way when they see a man anally raping a little boy?”
So, faced with these two options, the craven generals selected the worst possible option, and failed to give clear guidance one way or the other. Instead of taking on the responsibility that comes with the job, they punted. They chose not to give clear orders—“See it and stop it” or “See it but do nothing”—putting the risk they should bear as commanders onto their subordinates. Now, soldiers have to decide whether to do what is right or do what their generals telegraph they want done but won’t say because they don’t want to be held accountable for it.
If you think the general is going to say, ‘Oh, the captain as just following my order to allow child rapes,’ you are delusional.
This comes in the form of squishy guidance like, “If you see it, report it.” Apparently, a captain who comes across a kid being raped on some forward operating base is to do an about-face, stroll back to the main command post, call up to his battalion, which calls up to the brigade, which calls up to the division, and so on until it gets to the top, at which point the Afghan government gets told that out there in the wild one of their guys is raping kids. Presumably the pederast has finished the act by the time whatever consequences (if any) follow.
So, if the captain acts according to Army values and puts a stop to the child rape, he’s wrong. If he does nothing, and later some congressman or reporter asks the general why his troops aren’t stopping child rapes, the captain is going to be wrong again. If you think the general is going to say, “Oh, the captain as just following my order to allow child rapes occurring in front of him to continue,” you are delusional.
Symptom of a Greater Moral Crisis
This is merely a symptom, though, of the greater moral crisis inside the military. It now appears that CENTCOM, the command responsible for losing the phony war against ISIS, was cooking the intelligence books to support the Obama administration’s policies. It’s hard to imagine General James Mattis tolerating that nonsense. As a warrior with integrity, he had no place in the current leadership and was fired as CENTCOM commander, apparently for gross competence. Fighting with old, worn equipment is a challenge, but that can be overcome. The lack of competent, morally courageous senior leaders can’t be.
Then there is the Ranger School fiasco, where the generals are assuring everyone who will listen that the two women who passed the grueling course did so just like any male candidate. We’d love to believe that—it would be an awesome achievement. But, according to some close to the process, that was a lie, and the process was fixed from the beginning to obtain the politically useful result. The Navy secretary did not raise confidence that truth takes precedence over political expediency when he dismissed out of hand the lengthy, deliberate Marine Corp study on women in infantry units as purely the result of sexism.
Then there are the personal lapses. General David Petraeus slept with a subordinate and treated classified material cavalierly; not being a senior Democrat ally of President Obama, he was actually charged with a crime. Another general at the 82nd Airborne was court martialed for using his staff as a harem. In the least shocking development ever, neither general joined lower-ranking soldiers guilty of equivalent or lesser offenses in prison.
We have the greatest troops in the world, probably in all of human history. Fighting with old, worn equipment is a challenge, but that can be overcome. The lack of competent, morally courageous senior leaders can’t be.
Obama bears some of the blame because he could fix this with a few select firings and unequivocal guidance that values come first. But no one expects that of him, and there is no excuse why the generals have not done it themselves. They could demand competence. They could demand moral courage. They could resign rather than play along with misguided politics. But they have chosen their stars and positions and perks instead. It’s a disgrace, and our troops and little Afghan kids are paying the price.
This should never ever be acceptable.... NEVER
No it is ALL about Obama. The fish rots from the head. This man infects and destroys anything he comes close to without even having to touch it. He hates America and everything it stands for but he especially hates the military and is out to get us all killed. I can’t even look at him anymore without wanting to puke.
One word: Obama.
How tenuous can the situation be that it’s not only acceptable to permit child rape, but also necessary to punish those that make an effort to prevent it?
Yeah, I’m having difficulty accepting Schlichter’s argument that we should not blame it all on obama.
Schlichter wants us to also blame the military command for its moral cowardice, but obama is the one who deliberately promoted moral cowardice.
obama wants moral cowards to run our military.
And he has succeeded in doing so.
Although Schlichter does blame the problem partly on obama, he wants to blame those who are running the military, too.
Moral turpitude...
UCMJ Article 133.
Courts Martial offense.
Your statement is true.
The authors statement-
” whom the nineteenth-century Brits would have handily dispatched to hell in time for tea”
...doesn’t quite match history...eh...Dr. Watson ? ( ; )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Watson#Fictional_character_biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Anglo-Afghan_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brydon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eh
About as tenuous as the military brass who are trying to keep their lips on the butts of their liberal DC leaders.
Go in and get all the women and children out. Then nuke afgararbagecan from orbit. It’t the only way to be sure. The world does not need Afgarbagecan!
But it is the major worldview of sodomites—that Man/Boy “love” is how the behavior is learned and habituated in the children-—like the sodomite muslim worldview where boy harems are normal.
Sodomy and bestiality are a “Good” in our military now. Obama turned our once Christian military into a NON “Justice” System. (unconstitutional) It is a pagan, atheist, satanic “Ethic System”now. The SCOTUS allowed the Faith embedded in our “Justice System” to be thrown out (Natural Laws/God’s Laws) for Satanism (sodomy).
Obama established the pagan religions of the sexist Spartan and Samurai homosexual cultures, where the boys are always the preferred sexual playthings, and women are reviled and just for breeding
The Marxists have to force homosexual “marriage”-—that irrational, vile use of the human body, which defies Science and Reason, so that they can totally erase Christian Ethics in our culture and normalize muslim ethics in our children, so they will remain puerile and immoral and easily manipulated (devoid of Reason and virtue).
The Leftists know that if they destroy the unity of male/female, they will destroy the Natural Family which will give all children to the State to program and control for their NWO of “happy slavery”. Vice makes Slaves. That is why the sodomites in Hollywood are sexualizing the children as they rape them, to destroy moral formation and prevent flourishing, healthy relationships.
Without Virtue, Freedom can’t exist. Corrupting and sexualizing children, like the muslims do, is very easy when the children are removed from the Natural Family and put into indoctrination centers and sexualized/abused. Sex Ed is a Cultural Marxist invention to warp the minds of children and fixate them in puerile ages of latency, where sexual maturity is never possible and “loving” the Other (true diversity) is impossible.
All the sodomy promotion is deliberate and to eliminate Christianity from the face of the earth-—the ideology which created The Age of Reason and the greatest Freedom in the history of the World. Worldview is everything—and they have to promote irrational, vile sodomy-—and it is ALWAYS about the pretty little boys who have to be groomed for the puerile, narcissistic lifestyle of slavery.
In their country woman are expected to be virgins when they marry...thus it is customary for the men to take boys as their means of sex in order to “protect” the woman.... It's a horrible and disgusting practice but it is what they do.. Parents of these children generally approve and in some cases encourage such.
Heck the catholic church Priests have for centuries used boys and other homosexual practices right here in the states....though hidden and covered up it was still known. And just like there people just turn their heads even though they know what's going on is wrong.
We live in a world today where children are no longer protected ....what would they think of the US sucking little babies out of their mothers wombs and then butchering them to sell their body parts while they're still alive?
We are in no position whatsoever to debase another culture for their horrendous practices while we do far worse in this nation...and actually farm out these so called “services” for other countries to do likewise.
...”Go in and get all the women and children out”...
They might say to remove all our children as well for the millions we butcher every year.......
“Child rape” would suggest the rape of male and female children. The coverage I have seen might be better characterized as “homosexual rape of boys”.
Oh. I’m sorry. Pardon me. That wouldn’t fly with an administration that celebrated the judicial imposition of gay marriages and the media that echoes it. Never mind.
Interesting. Yes, wonder why The Federalist decided to go with the less controversial "child rape" description instead of the more accurate "homosexual rape of boys" description.
I had to laugh about how you finished off your reply with the Eh wiki.
Children grow up to be their parents.
It’s ALL about Obama!
The purpose of war & the definition of victory:
Achieve a position to successfully impose our will upon the enemy.
We have a president who does not want to change Afghan culture, won’t define the enemy, and fails to state our nations goals. The “war” just becomes half a$$ed smashing and killing with no achievable goal. The final outcome is a strengthening of our enemy’s will, courage, and purpose to fight.
God help us!
Moral equivalence is an ugly leftist tool which you seem to handle to well. Women are chattel slaves in Islam. You have to be some piece of work to say it is OK for Afghans to rape young boys because Priests have raped young boys and liberals killed unborn babies. Vile crimes can't be glossed over or minimized under any circumstance.
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