Posted on 12/05/2012 4:56:05 PM PST by Sioux-san
The Davis Petraeus saga is another urban legend; a myth about a great man felled by a single flaw or indiscretion. The truth is that Petraeus is a bit player in a larger, uglier drama, the political corruption the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and that exclusive four star glut that sits atop the military. And the rot didn't start with Petraeus. Recall Army Chief-of-Staff George Casey taking to the airways to rationalize the Fort Hood Islamist massacre in 2009. Somehow "diversity" and Muslim sensitivities were more important than twin dangers of domestic sedition or troop safety on American bases. Casey was thrown at the Sunday chat shows, like the more recent Susan Rice mendacity tour, to spin a politically correct message. And then there was Admiral Mike Mullen leading the charge for sex with any sex a year later on the E-Ring at the Pentagon. Say what you will about booty call as a "civil right," but gender choice is not a significant national security issue in the middle of a shooting war. The legality of relationships are social issues that should be addressed by an elected, yet too often cowardly, Congress; not the appointed military brass. And while the JCS was riding point for preferences, nobody seemed to notice, or care about, failure in all those Muslim Wars. Indeed, a four-star public relations campaign reinvented the English language to avoid words like victory. The new word for retreat is "drawdown." And real goals like winning or victory have been corrupted with terms like "nation building," or worse still, military gibberish like "transition." Euphemism is the first refuge of analytical cowards. CIA, if not the entire Intelligence Community, takes a bow here too. Only a loser needs to create another word for failure.
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Somewhere around 2005.
That’s right - it’s not fair to the poor little girls who aren’t strong enough but get the standards lowered so they don’t wash out. That’s why these female idiots in the military are pushing so hard for frontline combat duty. It’s all about their career and has nothing to do with what is right. I say give them what they want with one proviso: all female units/batallions. When they go down, they won’t have anyone to pull their asses out but their own big mouths. They put our men in harm’s way, but don’t care.
This is WAR, ladies, not working at Macy’s where you can “go all the way” up the job chain if you are good enough salesgirl. But it is the Military brass’ fault along with the politicians who need the females (and illegals and ex-cons) to make quotas. CRIMINALS & TRAITORS are running our country.
(I guess we do need the girls in the military because of all our wars now situated in muslim countries. Can’t have our soldiers mating with the natives, so our daughters get to be the concubines whether they want to or not.)
Well, give me that ol’ chubby Schwarzkopf any day (or was he a dog, too?)
And Congress is letting them do it.
Unfortunately these 4-star jack asses are kept by 0-star Horses Asses and they are all playing us for the fool.
No, Gen. Schwarzkopf was the real deal. Probably flunked weigh-in more than once, but he knew how to win Operation Desert Storm.
Thank the Lord!
David Hackworth saw this coming and was warning about this 20 years ago...
When political correctness and affirmative action collide...
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