At West Point, It’s Goodbye Grant and Lee, Hello Ali Baba

US Defense Watch ^ | April 25, 2016 | Ray Starmann

[pboyington]

It really is something absurd every day now.

Every day there is another story in the news about the careening, off the rails, flaming train wreck called the US military, courtesy of the Obama Administration and willing lackeys in the Pentagon.

This time the social engineering culprits are at West Point; you know the place that produced military superstars like Lee, Pershing, Patton, MacArthur and Schwarzkopf.

A recent story several days ago mentioned a West Point field trip to Jersey City, so that cadets could learn about Jersey City’s diverse cultural groups.

The cadets spent time with Muslim groups, among others, during a three-day tour of the city for their class, “Winning the Peace.”

During their April 15 visit to the Muslim Federation of New Jersey at 530 Montgomery St., cadets asked questions about Islam, ate traditional Pakistani dishes and attended a prayer session with the local Muslim community.

A West Point junior from a small town outside Seattle, said it’s been “eye-opening” to learn about different cultures after attending a high school that was mostly white.

“Collectively, we’ve all really enjoyed this experience so far,” he said.

Dr. Rafiq Chaudhry, a board member at the mosque, said the purpose of the cadets’ tour is to “appreciate the sensitivities of the different communities living in Jersey City.”

“We learn from them, they learn from us,” he said.

A West Point senior from South Jersey, said visiting different cultural groups and seeing how they live together in the same city has been an educational experience.

“It definitely surprised me that we have this population just over here in Jersey City. And it’s really impressive how they’re able to work together, and it’s really good to see that relationship,” she said.

You would think that West Point would send cadets on field trips to places like Gettysburg or to one of the many Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and other Civil War battlefields on the East Coast.

But, we must remember this is Obama’s Army; an Army slowly being eaten alive by the cancer of political correctness, sensitivity and gender neutrality.

Why would any West Point cadets want to learn about heroes like Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain or J.E.B. Stuart when they can learn about being sensitive toward the Muslim community in Jersey City?

What a gigantic waste of time and taxpayer money! But, then again, this is a US Army that was giving sensitivity training to its soldiers in Afghanistan. Think about that – sensitivity training in a combat zone!

Besides the politically correct virus destroying the Army, there’s also the recent obsession with peacekeeping, refugee management, nation building and counter-insurgency. These were topics normally reserved for civil affairs and Special Forces. Now, the whole Army is focused on this, with the result that the Army’s armored operational capabilities are about less than zero right now.

And, the Russians know it.

Hence, you have West Point sending cadets into Jersey City to attend Muslim prayer services, as if that’s going to teach future officers how to put a world of hurt on ISIS. Kneeling on a prayer mat and munching down Kabsa is great if you’re an SF officer in the Middle East. The cadets of West Point need to spend their time learning about American military history, tactics, operations and doctrine and stop wasting everyone’s time and money.

Our enemies are focused on defeating and destroying us in battle.

West Point is focused on building blocks of instruction that we’re created in some White House back room by a couple refugees from a Venice Beach Bernie Sanders rally.

What’s next for the Long Gray Line, a field trip tour of East Coast gender neutral bathrooms?

[Theodore R.]

When I read this, I think of the majority Republican Congress, governorships, state legislatures. They are truly irrelevant in the modern USA, which grows more liberal daily.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Article in a nutshell - “A good time was by all. And that’s an order.”

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I meant the story behind the article.

[PGR88]

In Obama’s limited view (or those who manage him, as I doubt Obama thinks deeply about anything) The USA’s main weapons in keeping the empire together are not the armed legions, as with Rome.

They are financial, political, propoganda/ informational, and technological. When armed US personnel are required, he can use a very small contingent of special forces or CIA.

Just look at how he has waged his wars in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine.

[HomerBohn]

America is sunk!

When the cadets goesinto the Muslim ghettos in America to play nice....it’s just too much.

I like what one of our generals, who has been retired by the Kenyan president, said: “Is this a great war or what? They want do die and we want to kill them!”

[2banana]

During their April 15 visit to the Muslim Federation of New Jersey at 530 Montgomery St., cadets asked questions about Islam, ate traditional Pakistani dishes and attended a prayer session with the local Muslim community.

Like "Can you explain why you worship a child rapist, slave trader, sex slave trafficker, mass murderer, liar, thief, someone who thought drinking camel urine was a good idea and a hater of dogs?"

[detective]

The U.S. military is already getting plenty of training in Muslim culture.

The Obama administration tells them to ignore the child rape that is endemic among Muslims.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/opinion/ignoring-sexual-abuse-in-afghanistan.html?_r=0

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Due to this Muslim dog and pony show, those cadets are going to be less prepared if they get assigned anywhere in the Muslim world than a person who knows nothing about it.

[blueunicorn6]

They had Equal Opportunity (EO) Officers in Iraq during the fighting.

What does an EO Officer do during combat?

Make sure the enemy shoots an equal number of times at different races?

[Fiji Hill]

cadets asked questions about Islam, ate traditional Pakistani dishes and attended a prayer session with the local Muslim community.

But that's cultural appropriation, which, according to the latest shift in the liberal-left party line, is one of the worst sins you can commit.

[pepsi_junkie]

They just keep trying to brainwash us into accepting muslims as the good guys.

[NFHale]

Marked for later read
Thanks for posting this Pappy.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

Open question to all active duty types, do they now have commissars at units?

[kagnew]

“Due to this Muslim dog and pony show, those cadets are going to be less prepared if they get assigned anywhere in the Muslim world than a person who knows nothing about it.”

True, but just think, our ROTC cadets will know how to walk a mile in red high heels because this administration wants to be sure that the men know what a women goes through. Please LORD deliver us from such nonsense and stupidity. All this PC garbage is going to do is get a lot of men killed.

[homegroan]

I love the cadet’s comment about the field trip: “We learn from them and they learn from us!”

Oh I am sure they do....

I wonder if they are going to a Kosher Deli next? Or maybe planning a special field trip for Cinco de Mayo?

[T-Bird45]

EO probably has a job similar to the Political Officer in the old Soviet Army to ensure all is done according to proper politics.

[ExNewsExSpook]

I’m beginning to believe the best hope for our military is a scenario someone described a few months back. The current CENTCOM commander briefs the new Republican president on his plan to defeat ISIS, with the JCS Chairman alongside. It’s nothing more than a continuation of Obama’s failed plan. CINCCENT is fired on the spot, along with the JCS Chair. After dismissing them, POTUS makes a call to (Ret) Gen James “Wild Man” Mattis, the legendary Marine four-star who was dismissed at CENTCOM because he stood up to Obama. Mattis is returned to active duty with a mandate to defeat ISIS.

I hope a Republican president would take the assignment a step further and tell him to fix the U.S. military as well. Mattis knows how to take care of ISIS, so he could delegate his strategy to competent commanders in the field. That way, he could focus on the bigger picture of getting the military back in shape and eliminating the PC cancer that has infected the armed services.

My guess is that Wild Man, as SecDef or JCS Chair, would lop off a lot of heads in short order, and we might see a few more retired flag officers recalled to active duty. Another general who needs to get back in uniform is General Kevin Chilton, the retired Air Force four-star whose last assignment was CINCSTRATCOM. Chilton publicly criticized Obama for his cuts in the nuclear arsenal and sounded the alarm about the decline in our strategic forces during Barry’s first term. Very sharp guy whose talents are sorely needed now.

[cherry]

military pensions....when your leader tells you to jump, you say how high.....when he tells you to love your mortal enemy, you say “how much”....

[Stand Watch Listen]

I love the cadet’s comment about the field trip: “We learn from them and they learn from us!” Oh I am sure they do....

taqiyyah:

-- In Islam, the practice of concealing one’s belief and foregoing ordinary religious duties when under threat of death or injury.

-- Lying to non-Muslims in advance for Islam is allowed till Judgment Day Quran 3:28, 16:106

-- It is fine to deceive the infidels. They are just pigs anyways. In fact, al-Taqiyyah of the Qur'an compels protection of Islam by deception.

" . . .Then I told them they were *refugees*!!

A TEACHABLE MOMENT
…….....……………(of lessons from September 11, 1683)

The West and the Refugees

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