Posted on 06/14/2022 12:22:45 PM PDT by robowombat
He Called America Racist, Now He's in Charge of Our Nukes He Called America Racist, Now He's in Charge of Our Nukes “When I see what happened to Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks… that could be me.”
Tue Jun 14, 2022 Daniel Greenfield
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
It was the summer of 2020. Black Lives Matter riots were terrorizing, destroying, and burning American cities. And the first black deputy commander of Air Force Global Strike Command told everyone in the Air Force that he was terrified that white people could kill him at any moment.
“Here I am as a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force," then Lt. Gen Anthony Cotton whined to Air Force Magazine. “When I see what happened to Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks—and the list goes on and on."
"That could be me," he claimed.
Since Cotton was, unlike Breonna Taylor, probably not harboring an armed drug dealer who opened fire on police or, unlike George Floyd, overdosing on fentanyl during a struggle with police as the climax to a long criminal career, that was a disingenuous smear from a top officer.
The spectacle of successful black men like Obama, Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier, or Gen. Anthony Cotton falsely claiming that America is so racist that any of them could suffer the fate of career criminals simply because of an accident of skin color is pathetic and disgusting. The Merck CEO or the Air Force general are as likely to suffer the fate of George Floyd as their white counterparts are to end up like a dead white meth addict shot in a raid in Georgia.
But Cotton knew what he was doing. What he was doing was dishonorable and self-serving.
And it worked.
Two years after complaining about police lights flashing in his rearview mirror and someone challenging his parking spot, Cotton has been nominated by Biden to head U.S. Strategic Command.
It’s been a rapid ascent for Gen. Anthony Cotton who had been appointed to head Air Force Global Strike Command last year, after being Deputy Commander of the same in 2019, up from the head of Air University in 2018. Air University, like a lot of Air Force and Navy educational institutions, had gone painfully woke. And Cotton earned his political stripes in the process.
Gen. Anthony Cotton, a four-star general, racked up some “firsts” attached to his name in the Black Lives Matter era, but that never seems to lessen the accusations of racism.
Charles Q. Brown, Jr. is the Air Force's first black chief of staff, and has been tipped to replace Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Milley. That hadn’t stopped Brown from crying racism and smearing the country he claims to serve.
In a speech in which Brown “seemed to barely contain his rage”, he ranted “that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ‘that I’ve sworn my adult life to support and defend’ have not always delivered ‘liberty and equality’ to all.”
"I am a Black man who happens to be the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force," Kaleth O. Wright, the second black man to serve as the highest ranking noncommissioned officer, tweeted. "I am George Floyd…I am Philando Castile, I am Michael Brown."
Cotton is following a familiar identity politics career model that’s bad for America, but good for unprincipled men who are willing to smear their country and play the victim.
Is America any less racist with the first black Air Force Chief of Staff, Chief Master Sergeant, head of Air Force Global Strike Command and now likely head of Strategic Command?
Somehow it’s only more racist.
Last year, Cotton claimed that "diversity, inclusion are tools for national defense" and that diversity is a "warfighting imperative". Perhaps actually winning wars would be imperative.
Has the Air Force become any more lethal on the battlefield ever?
“This team is exactly what we are looking for,” Cotton said of the Diversity and Inclusion Council at Malmstrom Air Force Base. “It is a diverse and unified team that is having crucial conversations about diversity and inclusion.”
The Montana Air Force base near Great Falls now has a Pride Month and will be spreading "unconscious bias training" which claims that all white people are racist.
Malmstrom has had a number of issues. Its nuclear missile unit has failed safety and security inspections, and bungled a response to a "simulated hostile takeover of a silo housing a nuclear missile". There was also a cheating scandal involving 34 missile launch officers during a nuclear proficiency test and many more who knew about the cheating, but didn’t report it.
This was part of a string of problems going back over a decade. Cotton had been in charge of ICBMs at Malmstrom from 2009 to 2011. And he’s gone on climbing the ladder ever since.
Malmstrom's nuclear arsenal is there to deter a nuclear war or end it quickly if it begins.
Having “crucial conversations about diversity” is not its mission, maintaining security procedures and being ready to kill one hundred million people in China, if necessary, is.
Are woke missileers who have conversations about how racist America is better at their jobs?
As head of U.S. Strategic Command, Gen. Cotton will have a leading responsibility in defending or going on the offensive against America’s enemies. But does he view America as the enemy?
Now that its leadership is “diverse” in the sense of being concentrated among members of a single race who agree that the country they claim to serve is a racist place that randomly kills black people on account of their race, is the Air Force any better for it?
FrontPage Magazine’s latest pamphlet, How Obama and Biden Destroyed the Greatest Military the World Has Ever Seen, documents how readiness rates for F-22 stealth fighters are at the halfway mark, CV-22 Ospreys are at 50%, F-35As are at 68%, F-15E's are at 66%, and the B-1 Lancer is at 40%. The B-1s are under Air Force Global Strike Command.
Instead of cleaning house, the Biden administration is rewarding failure and doubling down on wokeness. The Air Force isn’t ready for a major war, but its diverse leaders are eager to fight one against other Americans.
In an interview with Air Force Magazine, Cotton was described as saying that he "hopes the U.S. can reach a point where he doesn’t have to talk to his adult children about how to stay safe every week" from what is apparently the lurking menace of evil white people everywhere.
Given the opportunity, you have to wonder whether Cotton would nuke Beijing or Texas.
“It’s time for our nation to really dive into this and get after it—once and for all. And hopefully, you know, I don’t have to have those conversations with my kids," he complained.
Perhaps it’s time for the Air Force to stop having conversations about racism mandated by racists and for our nation to stop handing over our national defense to those who hate her.
Here’s a direct link to the article: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/he-called-america-racist-now-hes-charge-our-nukes-daniel-greenfield/
>In an interview with Air Force Magazine, Cotton was described as saying that he “hopes the U.S. can reach a point where he doesn’t have to talk to his adult children about how to stay safe every week”
Stay out of urban black neighborhoods where blacks kill other blacks in great numbers per capita when compared to whites.
There. I said it.
I don't know who Rayshard Brooks is/was, but ...
Ahmaud Arbery attacked a man with a shotgun; He dade.
Breonna Taylor was hanging out with a really bad dude who starting shooting at the cops when they came in the door and she got caught in the crossfire. She dade.
George Floyd died from heart failure due to a of a massive overdose of illegal drugs. He dade.
Rayshard Brooks was the feller that was found drunk and asleep in line at a Wendy’s restaurant. The cops tried to arrest him, he stole a cops taser and got shot for his troubles.
He dade.
Bingo.
And we need to keep hammering home the point that these commies of all colors do nothing but SLANDER and LIBEL their own country, CONSTANTLY, for DECADES.
Slander.
Libel.
That’s what liberals do.
Gen Cotton is in charge of our nukes? Greenfield discusses the absurdity.
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“...where he doesn’t have to talk to his adult children about how to stay safe every week.”
He must have dumb kids. I’ve told my adult kids a few times to be careful (don’t be at stupid places, don’t be out at stupid times, and don’t be with stupid people - and never all three at once!), what to do when a cop pulls you over, etc. But he needs to tell them every week!?
He’s a Lieutenant General in the Air Force. That’s quite the accomplishment for a man who identifies as a ghetto thug.
Blacks do this paranoid rant because deep inside many are really afraid of the white boys, not the soy boys, but the guys who fix their cars, install the gutters, cut down dead trees, etc. Not a joke. I have lived in the deep south and the industrial midwest and it is a fact of life. That why blacks will be so unpleasant and vicious with white men and women when they have big numbers on their side. Screwed up people far to often.
Say his name!
Ethan Liming!!
Great point.
The whole thing reminds me of this:
The Talk: Nonblack Version
Teach your children well.
https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/the-talk-nonblack-version/
This got John Derbyshire kicked off of National Review for being politically incorrect.
I remember when Military weren’t allowed to publicly air anti-govt. opinions...remember the general in Korea who said Jimmah Cahtah sucked? He was fired very quickly. But the stooges in power now just let it go.
Would you want to follow and fight for a General who bad mouths the very country you are defending?
I didn’t think so.
Thanks for the ping.
He’s free to move to another country and has the money to do it.
When the Hollywood/MSM version of the pity party rots out a person's brain... How disgusting and childish.
President Trump's fatal mistake was NOT invoking the Insurrection Act and taking over leftist cities with Federal troops, gunning down BLM and Antifa terrorists in the process.
Was he afraid the left was going to hate him any more than they already did? With Federal troops in place, he could have started "Pinochet-ing" the socialists and communists destroying this country.
To this day, I believe this was his chance to cross the Rubicon, and he didn't seize the opportunity.
Yeah well Auvrey’s killers will be in jail forever, so I will sleep well about it
They let it go because they agree.
A general who publicly voiced support for Trump, or who said there was fraud in the 2020 election, would have MP's dragging him away before the last syllable left his lips.
So, now that our Air Force is led by angry black men raging against the machine, I am feeling a wee bit unsafe.
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