I can only imagine how deep the PC crowd has burrowed into the government departments and the leadership of our military. Thank God I was able to retire from the Air Force in 1986 when it was starting to become noticeable.
God Bless America!
My thoughts were of the day in July, 1956 when I stepped off an Air Force C-121 onto the 115+ degree tarmac of Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli, Libya. That day ushered in a very meaningful eighteen month crash course on the middle east. Within a few weeks I was watching our radar chart the progress of the British and French air attack on the Suez Canal. If I remember correctly, they came down from the northwest, over Crete, and proceeded on an easterly heading over the northern Mediterranean. We did not know at the time what or who they were, or what their destination was. They had kept their plans secret from the US until they arrived over the target. It was then when I realized the solidarity of Muslim countries. We had to seal off our Air Base, (note that Air Force Base was not used) from the hoardes of infuriated Arabs who saw us as implicit in the attack against Egypt.
Then, as now, and only twelve years after WWII, The most powerful country on earth was not willing to call a spade a spade. To use the word "Force" might offend someone. Nevermind that Rommel and Patton had fought all over the Libyan Desert slightly more than a decade before, and that Italian Facists had ruled Libya, we needed to keep a low profile lest we offend a country that had sixteen medical doctors in it. Honest, that is what we were told. After a few weeks of classical Arabic language training, I was able to converse(barely) with the Arab population. It was my observation that a deep hatred existed, not far below the surface of most Arabs, for anyone who was not of their culture or religion. It is now 45 years later. Little has changed.