NOTE TO RECRUITERS: Say goodbye to meeting enlistment quotas...
obama's future military...
Posted on 02/06/2010 12:07:14 PM PST by Edisto Joe
President Obama just cannot help himself from blaming current problems on the past administration. Nothing is ever his fault. That's about to change. He is about to make a colossal blunder...
One must remember, there is no Constitutional right to serve in the United States Military...period! There never has been, yet according to our once Constitutional law professor, President Obama, there is and he stated so in his State Of The Union Address.
“This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are.”
After many occasions praising our military and relating to us the amounts of respect he holds to those who serve, he announces that he is ready to embark on what Bill Kristol, from “The American Standard” and Col. Oliver North, from “Fox News” have described as a dangerous social experiment. The President looks to satisfy a liberal section of society and his party by asking Congress to repeal the “Don't Ask Don't Tell” law for the military that restricts open homosexuality in the service.
However the President is mistaken...IT DOES NOT DENY THEM THE RIGHT TO SERVE! For obvious reasons, the majority of Americans understand, the law basically requires exactly what it states. We don't ask about sexual preference and you don't tell what your sexual preference is. The policy works for the military and that should be the end of it. For good reason, the military has always operated under separate rules and regulations that differ from those of civilian society. Just because you are citizen does not mean you can serve. Right now we operate on an all volunteer basis but we maintain a Selective Service System. Two words, “Volunteer” and “Selective”, stand out here.
Gay men and women are already serving in the military and are doing so as volunteers. They cannot say they weren't aware of the DADT law. A true call to duty is based on one willingness to serve their country not to advance some social agenda as the President would like. If the need ever arose to increase the level of troops, then Selective Service would kick in. However, just because you are chosen through the Selective Service System you are not guaranteed the right to serve and never have been. Inductees must first pass physical, mental and moral exams before given a classification for service.
Right now our military has the best equipment and the best trained and educated soldiers in the world. Simply put, they are the finest fighting force in the field. What the President and the radical left are proposing is damaging to what may be the one institution the American people still place their faith and trust in. Currently the American military is engaged in two wars. The logistics of that alone demands their full attention. Yet her comes “Mr. Change” ready to embark on dismantling the current operational structure to appease a minority. Ready to tear down the institution he claims to have so much respect for. The time effort and money spent on re-organizing the military if such a law was overturned is unimaginable. It is bad for moral, it is bad for unit cohesiveness, and will certainly effect recruiting.
Time and again this President has shown no foresight into the policies he proposes. Here is something that he might want to consider. If his proposal does in fact reduce recruiting, will Selective Service be brought into action...will he then be forced to institute a draft? Even if a draft is enacted after he leaves office, it will always be part of his legacy, the President who brought back forced military service. I believe many of those young supporters of his, including the gay ones, won't be so enamored with him then, not to mention all their parents. Obama just doesn't get it. The reason our military is the best is because it is an all volunteer vocation. The young men and women serving have done so not to advance a social cause or to participate in a social experiment. They have done so to protect and serve this great country. There is no Constitutional right to serve but there is a right to pass on service or leave after your time is up. Think on that Mr. President. The military you claim to love may be the one you destroy.
Having served in the military, even being suspected of being gays instigates constant teasing. Obama is a fool who does not understand the military. Good people will not serve if he keeps this nonsense up. He is ticking off a large portion of this country deliberately. He is constantly dividing the country with his stupid words and actions.
Don’t you mean LATEST big blunder?
Obama and all of his “team of experts” couldn’t win a game of Risk.
Hey blogpimp - get your butt back into the blogger section!
(”Big Blunder”... more like the latest in Obama’s “It’s a Blunderful Life”....)
Liberalism causes mental retardation.
Not to mention delusional paranoid schizophrenia.
#934 in the Destroy America playbook.
Hey, our Whitey House professor of Constitutional law also wanted congress to overturn a Supreme Court decision! That Haavahd law course must be a real doozy!
Amen. I'll go further. If your religion in Islam, you do not have a "right" to join the military. We had the fragging (grenade) instance killing several officers during the Bush II Iraq incursion. More recently we had a radical Islamist kill an Army recruiter. In November we had what should have been the 9/11 wake-up call for the Armed Forces: An Islamist Army Major used his rank to infiltrate Ft Hood and massacre 40 people. Enough is enough.
Everytime Obama speaks he ticks off over half the country.
Lots of people are sick and tired of what he has to say about most things. This is hope and change? This is garbage and more garbage he is feeding us. Those who listen to this guy and approve must be out of their minds.
And the MSM has lost all credibility forever. He has destroyed the MSM.
Classic ‘Python skit!
“Alright, men. Swan around a bit.”
Being openly gay is one way to be classified as unsuitable for military service. If a draft is brought back into action that exclusionary classification will be removed either by the Congress as part of the reactivation law or by the US Supreme Court on 14th amendment grounds. Gays will then be forced to serve even if they have no desire to serve and kissing their commander on the lips will no longer be a guaranteed way out. Instead, they may get more than they bargained for! A lot of gays may end up getting killed that might otherwise live.
Thanks, Obama!
It all started with those damned berets.
ping
As a current member of the Navy. I have no idea what Obama is talking about. Not one clue. If you repeal Dont ask Dont tell, won’t we return to the system where we Do ask and we Do expect them to tell?
Obama needs to clarify that there is nothing wrong with this policy of Dont ask and Dont tell. It is really misleading what he is talking about. I think I know what he really wants. He wants the military to end the ban on having gay serve openly. That is if a gay service member was caught in the act or admitted it, he would not be kicked out. I still believe that he would prefer that the military does not ask anyone what their sexual preference is.
It should be repealed on the gayness of the phrase, alone.
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