Our PC Generals undermine troop morale

To our nation’s detriment the time of boot-knife carrying, profane, shaved headed, alpha male, with killing-on-their-minds generals in the U.S. military is over.

I cannot remember the last time I heard a rousing, blood-pumping comment from someone with stars on his shoulders. The more stars, the more they sound like a senior senator from Pennsylvania…. no disrespect to Pennsylvania.

Nowadays generals “in country” walk around without covers and don’t even carry sidearms, thus giving the impression of USO entertainers in borrowed military gear.

I know that such dashing command presence would just fill me great confidence as I prepares to break wire.

General McChrystal is the absolute worst about this….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And… I don’t believe that it is appropriate or dignified for professional soldiers to mourn their dead in weepy candlelight ceremonies especially with civilians present.

 

 

 

 

 

Many years ago, as Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Douglas MacArthur chafed at the thought that FDR's socialist New Deal would be funded through cuts to the military.

He told Roosevelt:

"When we lose the next war and an American boy is writhing in pain in the mud with a Jap bayonet in his belly, I want the last words that he spits out in the form of a curse to be not against Douglas MacArthur but against Franklin Roosevelt." FDR was enraged, and he said, "Never speak to the President of the United States that way."

MacArthur immediately offered to resign, but Roosevelt brightened and said, "No, no, Douglas, we must get together on this."

The man who now holds McArthur’s job—Gen. George Casey—is typical of the politically-correct, “diversity-at-all-costs” mentality that has poisoned the upper ranks of our military; perhaps all ranks. 

As the highest commander, the blood of 40 Fort Hood soldiers is on his hands; it was on his watch that an anti-American Muslim zealot who openly praised suicide bombers was catered to, educated at tax payer expense and then murdered 13 young real Americans.

What was Casey’s response?  

• “I’m concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that.” Casey on CNN and any other number of left-wing Sunday TV shows he could slither onto.
• "I wouldn't say I fear (a backlash against Muslims), but one of the reasons I told our leaders to keep their people informed and not rush to judgment or speculate until the investigation comes out, is I do worry slightly about a potential backlash, and we have to be concerned about that."
• “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

Somewhere in America 40 families had to hear their son’s or daughter’s top general say that a dent in our “diversity”—whatever the goddamned hell that is—is more important that the lives and bodies of their loved ones.

Perhaps Casey is best know for using specific troop numbers in his public discussion of a possible drawdown of US Troops in Iraq in 2005. He said the then current troop level of 138,000 could be reduced by 30,000 in the early months of 2006 as Iraqi security forces took on a greater role. President Bush publicly called the talk "speculation" and rebuked the general.

Obviously an opponent of vigorous war-fighting, in January 2007, Casey implied his opposition to a troop surge in Iraq.

"The longer we in the U.S. forces continue to bear the main burden of Iraq’s security, it lengthens the time that the government of Iraq has to take the hard decisions about reconciliation and dealing with the militias. And the other thing is that they can continue to blame us for all of Iraq’s problems, which are at base their problems. It’s always been my view that a heavy and sustained American military presence was not going to solve the problems in Iraq over the long term."^[3]

Not long after, Bush kicked Casey upstairs to make way for a real general… David Petraeus, who seems to have been very very quiet since Obama bluffed his way into commanding our troops.

Over the last two hard days of photo ops Obama-appointed Secretary of the Army John McHugh could muster little more than repeating the Army’s pathetic, Madison Avenue motto when discussing the Fort Hood massacre:

"This is a time for the Army family to stand together, this is a time for 'Army Strong' to mean what it says -- and this is a time to know that we are working every moment to ensure that their safety and security is met to the highest possible degree."

At least he expressed some concern about soldiers being assassinated inside their own bases.

A career politician, McHugh, like so many of my fellow Baby-Boomers, graduated from high school in 1966… college four years later; but just couldn't find time to join us in South Vietnam.

But I know you’ll be reassured to learn that McHugh was voted one of the “50 most beautiful people on Capitol Hill” by The Hill magazine.^[10]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the boss of the entire Army.

Is justice being pursued?

Asked whether he thought the Army “dropped the ball” in not responding to warning signs that the major was increasingly radical, General Casey replied that he was encouraging soldiers to provide information to criminal investigators.

But he added that the Army needs to be careful not to jump to conclusions based on early tidbits of information.

In other words… do not talk about ragheads…. and it’s a “criminal matter” for the FBI and the courts… not a failure of Casey and his Army.

It was left to Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, get it right; he promised that his committee would investigate Hasan’s suspected motives and whether the Army “missed warning signs that should have led them to essentially discharge him.”

In closing…. The San Antonio Express-News has reported that fellow classmates of Hasan in a graduate military medical program heard him justify suicide bombings and make radical and anti-American statements.

But investigators have said that “Major Hasan” might have suffered from emotional problems that were aggravated by the strain of working with veterans of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and by the knowledge that he might soon be deployed to those theaters as well.

Got that….? the spin is that Hasan who has never served outside the United States and probably fired a rifle but once, may have Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

It’s all mapped out for any other sleeper jihadist in the military…. kill as many as you can and then claim to be insane based on hearing combat stories of actual heroes.

Hundreds of ACLU operators are standing by.

Comments

[SallyW]

I wanted to let you know I added you to my reader. It's refreshing to find someone with the intelligence, guts and brilliant ability to put this chaotic mess of a government & military into words. It needs definition to understand it to stay informed.
I completely stumbled on your blog looking for images of "The 5,000 Year Leap." I can't quit reading!

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[Hap Arnold]

I know Gen Casey is toeing the "party line" and steadfastly adhering to political correctness in his can't-we-all-get-along utterances, but where the hell are his devotion & loyalty to the non-Muslim men & women he commands? The man turned into a 4-star embarrassment in his statement, seemingly abandoning his troops for the sake of misguided propriety. Made me sick to my stomach....

Hap