What kind of leader wants a military more loyal to himself than to the rule of law? And why? These are two questions to ponder when considering the strange happenings in the armed forces since Barack Obama took office.
Lets start with a hypothetical. Lets say you were a hard-left-wing commander in chief who wanted the military firmly in your corner. Youd certainly note that our armed forces have been a bastion of conservatism and Christian faith and youd know that its members generally werent very fond of you. So how would you go about changing this?
Some years ago I met a very young all-American looking white fellow who had just exited the military. His reason was that he hadnt been advanced the way he believed he should have been and he wasnt going to remain in the armed forces if it provided no future. Now one interpretation here is that he was a millennial with an inflated opinion of himself (he didnt strike me that way though). Yet there is another interpretation.
The Obama administration has given affirmative action in the military a dose of steroids promoting minorities and women and I believe homosexuals and lesbians at the expense of white men. By the way is this yet another reason why Obama wanted homosexuals to be able to serve openly? After all you cant target them for special treatment if you dont know who they are.
But the point is this: if I were that hypothetical hard-left-wing leader Id know that one way to change the militarys political climate is the same way you do it in the nation at large.
Demographic manipulation.
White men generally vote Republican white military men even more so and white military men who are practicing Christians well thats a recipe for a left-behind left. Minorities women atheists and the LGBT* crowd however are reliable liberal constituencies. So what would I do if I were that hard leftist?
Id create a military climate friendly toward groups that are my constituencies and hostile toward those that arent.
And Id do more than subordinate white men to other groups in the promotion process. Id clamp down on Christian expression which had often been robust in the military and punish servicemen who transgressed against my separation-of-church-and-everything policy. Id let the world know that as far as homosexuality goes the armed services are open for monkey business. Id also force military personnel to be politically correct not just about sexuality but also Islam so that they were confronted with the choice of saying things they dont believe or career damage. After all good people might rather leave the service than live a lie. And Id issue instructional materials characterizing traditionalists as a threat so that the low-information servicemen may believe it and the more savvy would feel further alienated.
The goal here is to create a situation in which traditionalists will be encouraged to leave the military or not enlist in the first place. Of course this method cant bleed out all the red-blooded but it can shift the balance. It can ensure a few things:
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The number of leftist fellow travelers in the armed forces will be as great as possible.
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As many of the rest as possible will be apolitical mind-numbed types who wouldnt question unconstitutional orders.
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The remaining traditionalists would be outnumbered by the first two groups and in a dont ask-dont tell predicament. And having been denied promotions theyd have little institutional power.
At the same time that I was transforming the body Id also have to gain control of the head. To this end I would look to replace as many generals as possible with those I believed would do my bidding. For once I owned the military head body and soul I could really dream that impossible dream.
Anyway thats what I would do were I that hypothetical hard-left-wing leader.
Incidentally theyre all things Barack Obama has already done.
As for the generals note that the two-star general who oversaw our arsenal of intercontinental missiles Major General Michael Carey was just fired becoming the latest in a string of recent high-profile firings of top U.S. generals" as Reuters puts it. Talk-show-host Michael Savage discussed this on his Friday program and was very suspicious about the Air Forces reluctance to provide a reason for canning the man who oversaw our nuclear weapons the service only said that the general was terminated for undisclosed personal misbehavior." As for me Ill just repeat my opening questions:
What kind of leader wants a military more loyal to himself than to the rule of law?
And why?
Whatever your conclusions there is of course a mundane explanation for all of this. Leftists truly believe in their insane diversity dogma and quite reflexively try to socially re-engineer whatever they can sink their claws into be they universities neighborhoods businesses or even the entities charged with protecting their compassionate selves. And in this age of increasing corruption and decadence it wouldnt be surprising to find generals transgressing against military code. Yet given that Barack Obama is a shadowy figure with a penchant for hiding his past (college records etc.); that he has had avowed communists in his administration (Van Jones Anita Dunn); that he seemed to belong to Chicagos socialist New Party in the 1990s; and that according to former Occidental College acquaintance and ex-Marxist John Drew Obama was a flat-out Marxist Leninist" who believed in old-style communist revolution well ones imagination can conjure up some interesting scenarios.
The only question is is it at all possible that Obamas imagination conjures up the same ones?