It’s not designed to advance the cause of common sense. It’s designed to weaken America.
There can be no other explanation. It weakens us in an untold number of ways - morale, recruitment of weak officers, preoccupation with incredibly stupid minutiae, wasting millions of manhours on pure garbage.
It doesn’t “defy common sense” when viewed through Obama’s lens of “how do I destroy America in the few months I have left?”
I hope to God Trump undoes all this crap on Day 1 and restores some sanity to the nation.
You have to understand, there are two diametrically opposed meanings depending on whether the phrase is rendered as “common sense”, two words, or compressed into a single or hyphenated compound word, “commonsense” or “common-sense”.
The first means that which should be conventional wisdom, that any person with some degree of critical thinking capability should be able to arrive at the conclusions just from knowledge gained over a lifetime, while the second expression has become Newspeak for going along with the otherwise mindless Groupthink of conformity. We frequently hear the second being used in conjunction with some part of the agenda the progressives want to emphasize, as in referring to “commonsense gun control”. Usually this means seizure or total prohibition to “civilians”.
So this is now “commonsense overhaul of the structure of the military”, because that is the part of the agenda the progressives are pushing. That use of the word has nothing at all to do with the original meaning of the phrase, common sense.
The effect is to further gut and hamstring the effectiveness of our fighting forces, so with the artificial handicaps placed upon them, it will then be a “fair fight” when facing ISIS, i.e., ISIS wins almost by default, because the now clumsy structure of command and control cannot get out its own way.
The Current Regime has a very skewed idea of what constitutes “fairness”.
What better way to slap the faces of traditional Military brass - the kind that see the function of the military as ‘winning wars’ and protecting the Nation?
It’s a ‘self purge’ act...one every good person in the military must resist.