Debasing Our Military, One Politically Correct Moment After Another

Patriot Post ^ | Feb. 27, 2012 | Arnold Ahlert

[La Enchiladita]

For many years, the military was the last bastion of resistance against the bankruptcy of progressive thinking. No longer. Three vivid illustrations of what those who volunteer to defend this nation must now endure, stand as a beacon to the corruption that political correctness brings wherever it is unleashed.

...First, the Fort Hood massacre. Army brass knew that Major Nidal Hasan was a an Islamic radical, long before he killed 13 and wounded another 32 of his fellow soldiers. A report released soon after the atrocity provided a devastating indictment of political correctness. "Although neither Department of Defense nor the FBI had specific information concerning the time, place or nature of the attack, they collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism, but failed both to understand and to act on it," the report stated. It further noted that the Pentagon "possessed compelling evidence that Hasan embraced views so extreme that it should have disciplined him or discharged him from the military, but failed to take action against him," and that his military officer evaluation reports were "sanitized" to minimize his "obsession with violent Islamic extremism."

That report was released in February of 2011. Not mentioned were two repugnant realities. The first involved the president of the United States. Despite knowing about the shooting prior to taking the stage at a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to a Congressional Medal of Honor winner. Three minutes later he got around to telling the nation about the slaughter. In a better world, such calculated restraint should have signaled the end of his presidency. In this one, it has long been forgotten.

[La Enchiladita]

Which bring us to our latest insult of America's fighting forces. The ongoing and obsequious apologies made by president Obama, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander Gen. John Allen and other members of this administration for burning religious documents in Afghanistan -- documents that contained "extremist inscriptions" being used to "facilitate extremist communications" -- is nothing short of appalling. Furthermore Gen. Allen has added PC insult to injury: he has ordered all 130,000 coalition troops in the country to "complete training in the proper handling of religious materials" by March 3rd. "I'm going to take steps inside these headquarters to issue an order today on how we will handle religious materials for the faith of Islam, henceforth, by ISAF, so that something like this just cannot happen again," said the general, who offered repeated apologies to the "noble people of Afghanistan."

[TigersEye]

My Apology to President Karzai on Behalf of Americans
(Not what it sounds like. Huge slap in 0bama's face!)
(Now over 1,206,991 views!)

Here is how the Afghans found out about the koran burning last year in Florida.

From the WSJ:

"Most Afghans learned about the Quran burning in Florida only when Mr. Karzai on March 24 (4 days after!) condemned the act as "a crime against the religion and the entire Muslim nation," called on the U.S. and the U.N. to bring the perpetrators to justice and demanded "a satisfactory response to the resentment and anger of over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world."

My Apology to President Karzai on Behalf of Americans
(Not what it sounds like. Huge slap in 0bama's face!)
(Now over 1,206,991 views!)

Here is how the Afghans found out about the koran burning last year in Florida.

From the WSJ:

"Most Afghans learned about the Quran burning in Florida only when Mr. Karzai on March 24 (4 days after!) condemned the act as "a crime against the religion and the entire Muslim nation," called on the U.S. and the U.N. to bring the perpetrators to justice and demanded "a satisfactory response to the resentment and anger of over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world."

[PGR88]

I’ve always wondered how/where/if conservative patriots will serve when they are no longer welcomed in the armed forces?

[bigheadfred]

Gen. Allen has added PC insult to injury: he has ordered all 130,000 coalition troops in the country to "complete training in the proper handling of religious materials"

So they have a set of rules and regulations in place for our soldiers to burn Bibles?

[El Gato]

Army brass knew that Major Nidal Hasan was a an Islamic radical, long before he killed 13 14 and wounded another 32 of his fellow soldiers.

Don't forget the baby. Her mother's last words, as reported by witnesses at the Article 32 hearing, were: "My Baby, My Baby". She new "that" was a baby, not a "tissue mass". RumInt says the same bullet killed both of them.

[steve86]

They will serve in opposition to the armed forces.

[La Enchiladita]

Karzai, what an ingrate slime.

Here is a link to relevant WSJ op-ed from yesterday: The Perils of Retreat

If not a suscriber, go to Google News, type in the title of article. That link will give you the entire article to read. It is sobering, true and infuriating.

(snip)
One GI's killing spree should not be able to undermine a war effort for which Americans have sacrificed so much. But that's what can happen when everyone concludes that a President's timetable is geared more to an election than to military success. If only Mr. Obama spoke as clearly about U.S. purposes in Afghanistan as he has about the risks of an Israeli attack on Iran.

[TigersEye]

Thanks for the link. Karzai is such scum. He purposely fans the flames every chance he gets and has said he would stand with Pakistan if it came to the U.S. vs Paki. He is not a friend an ally or anything else we should try to deal with. If we can’t win his heart and mind then we should declare this nation-building garbage an Epic Fail!