Posted on 07/17/2023 4:53:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The military is not there for social engineering. It’s not there to mainstream deviant behavior, to equalize outcomes in the American public, or to plant toxic race theory in the minds and hearts of our recruits.
The late Rush Limbaugh had a way of summarizing the issues in a concise, pithy way. On matters regarding the armed services, he would always remind his audience that “the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things.”
SNIP
Throughout our nation’s last hundred years, we have often had to remind people of this, as various issues have popped up that interfere with the mission of the armed services. For example:
Feminists wanted women in combat; traditionalists said “Look, this is nothing against women, but having both men and women in combat together will jeopardize the mission. Chivalrous men will be distracted from their duty in combat if women fighting alongside them are injured; regular guys will be distracted from their duty in peacetime if hormones kick in and romances occur. And then we have to consider the undeniable differences in physical ability -- as groups -- and how it affects the ability of the corps.”
Homosexual activists wanted to remove the traditional bans on same-sex relationships in the military. “Look, this is nothing against gays and lesbians, but you have to admit that all the same challenges posed by temptations and risks, from romance to abuse, that plague the challenge of women in combat go double if you allow homosexual activity in the military.”
Over the years, America essentially lost both of those arguments. What has it done to our forces? The statistics show the results: pregnancies, venereal diseases, abuse, depression, drug addition, suicide.
All because we lost track of the key focus. We allowed our military to get distracted...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Everything the left touches turns to garbage.
A truism, if there ever was one.
How does that saying go?
I don’t know who started this fight but I know who is going to end it.
Behind the facade of social issues is an army of pure Marxists.
The social issues are a homosexual Trojan Horse.
The homos are the Commies “useful idiots”, they’ll be ‘dealt with’ after the Revolution.
“”The military is not there for social engineering. It’s not there to mainstream deviant behavior, …”
Yeah? Now it is.
"Drag Shows This Way...All Queens Welcome!"
Then in the 80s they started using the Services as fields for social experiments, and its been downhill ever since.
There are too many generals, admirals, and support staff in the military. Has anyone counted today’s general vs the number of generals we had in WW2, when we had millions more soldiers, sailors, and marines? I have not done the research, but a few years ago there were vastly more today than 1944. There is no need for them! And they all have aides and support staff, etc.
Start at the top. Immediately cut the number of generals by at least two thirds. With modern communications, we need far fewer generals per soldier than in WW2.
A lot of the mess DoD is in today is due to lack of any real job to do by high-ranking officers who realize they need to justify their existence. Retire them!
Democrats soil institutions.
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