Aquarius enemies6/25/2023 It’s getting bad enough that some people are beginning to talk about a peacetime draft. 27, 2021, for the service members killed in action during operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. US service members assigned to Joint Task Force-Crisis Response, are pallbearers on Friday, Aug. Many potential recruits are saying “Not me” and looking elsewhere. Today the question is: Who wants to be the first? John Kerry asked who wants to be the last man to die for a mistake. DEI is unpopular in the military, a place where troops may be rightfully hesitant to serve under a commander selected for the color of his skin rather than the content of his character.”īack in his anti-war days, former Sen. He adds: “This administration has a growing obsession with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, a college campus fad that teaches America is fundamentally racist and can only be fixed by discriminating against American males with European ancestry. ![]() These servicemen and women were left out there to guard a patch of land their commander-in-chief had given up.” “The worst image of all was when eleven Marines, one sailor and one soldier were killed by a suicide bomber outside Abbey Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport as the evacuation occurred. A few short months after my last combat deployment, the Afghans I worked with clung desperately to aircraft and pounded at the airport gates,” retired military officer and Vietnamese refugee Hung Cao writes. “I watched in horror as the images of the fall of my native Saigon repeated themselves in 2021 in Kabul. The DEI industry really isn’t about diversity, equity OR inclusion Last fiscal year, the Army fell 25% short of its recruiting goals. It doesn’t help that brass treat the group that has traditionally been the backbone of the military’s combat arms, white males from the South and Midwest, as presumptively racist and deplorable.Īs a recent Spectator World article asked: “Look at DEI and Afghanistan: is it any wonder our ranks are dwindling?” Many officers - and even more damaging, senior noncommissioned officers like sergeants and chief petty officers - are choosing to retire.Īnd military recruitment has tanked, as potential recruits realize they might be abandoned, as Americans were in Afghanistan, or see their military careers ruined over using the wrong pronouns for someone. The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal has buoyed our adversaries, encouraging Vladimir Putin to cause more trouble in Ukraine and making it more likely China, already rattling sabers, will cause more trouble with Taiwan. A letter addressed to Kevin McCarthy, Hakeem Jeffries and the Armed Services Committee and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee chairmen from retired senior military officers warns of DEI. ![]() The military’s record in recent years has been poor. It was one of the most - possibly the most - diverse and inclusive institutions in America precisely because it recruited and promoted on merit to a greater degree than almost any other institution in America.īut, they caution, in the name of DEI, it’s moving its emphasis from merit to things like skin color and national origins, in a system where people are “labeled as ‘oppressed’ or ‘oppressors,’ and pitted against each other.” ![]() “For generations, our military was a meritocracy,” they write. In an open letter addressed to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the Armed Services Committee and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee chairmen, they warn the pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion, and political correctness generally, is getting in the way of the military’s actual mission: to fight and win wars and, by being able to do so, deter adversaries from starting anything. Sometimes I look at the destructive things done in the name of DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion - and I wonder: If a foreign power had infiltrated us and was trying to weaken and destroy our institutions, what would it do differently?Īnd now a large group of retired senior military officers - generals and admirals all - is raising the alarm on the pernicious influence of “woke” ideology in military DEI programs. The NAACP’s utterly false smear of DeSantis’ Florida ![]() Affirmative action SCOTUS case could take down ‘diversity’ industry tooĬorporate USA awakes to woke, debt-limit deal = GOP win and other commentaryĬhick-fil-A sparks anti-woke outrage over VP of diversity, equity, inclusion post
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