General Casey — Army Chief of Staff, appeared on meet the Press this past Sunday. If this is what passes for leadership — the Army — and the rest of us are in trouble. I can’t find a shorter video, but fast forward to around 5:38 in. As bad as the Ft. Hood tragedy is — the loss of diversity in our armed forces would be worse. I didn’t say that — General Casey did. Political Correctness will be our undoing.
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There is a distinct chasm in the Army. It stops at Colonel and begins at Brigadier General. The chasm is politics. Some are able to bridge that gap, and still maintain making good command decisions. Others fall into the chasm of politics, and become politicians with a military rank. Looking at the headlines, you can pretty much tell who’s who.
Petraeus…McChrystal…There are plenty of good leaders in the Army. Their conduct in the two ongoing wars shows the caliber of leadership we have, in general. To second G-Man’s observation, the politicians in uniform are nothing new. They’re a cliche in fiction and film. You’ll never be completely free of them.
correction: The conduct of our forces
And Zero’s ALMOST ready to make a decision…:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_afghanistan
I think he was just waiting for the conflict to end all by itself.
wasn’t Casey removed from Iraq and kicked upstairs for failing to understand what needed to be done?
I have no doubt the Army (and all our armed forces) — left to its own devises would do just fine. This PC Bs will pay negative dividends somewhere down the road. In fact, it already has in Ft. Hood, in Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor account and I’m sure countless other ways.
The armed forces do know what to do. History has shown all the blunders have come from the white house.
And by blunders I mean the former Soviet Union, Korea, and Viet Nam. I hope Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t added to the list by this administration.
The hammer should have been brought down on this religious fanatic a long time ago….would have been if he were Christian or Jewish,but the chickenshit brass in the Army and their massas in Washington put PC ahead of national security.
Yeah, Scott. Pretty much PC is a cancer.
What David said is correct……this was a bad thing and heads need to role. I read Col. Ralph Peters take on it and he was correct. They have to stop being politically correct. It gets people killed.
A dozen people dead seems bad enough. Granted, if I was a career politician in fatigues, I wouldn’t lament my affirmative action program being screwed up by some wack job with a semi-auto. To me, the real tragedy is always the tragedy, but watching Thomas and Casey twist themselves in knots over the ring wing response or some hit a diversity program may take, I have to say the failure of human decency is starting to close at the finish.
Diversity is one of those terms that makes me ill because it’s come to mean conformity and moral relativism.
Diversity has come to mean just picking someone according to some criteria such as race, creed, gender or ethnicity. True diversity respects the individual and comes about naturally when organizations seek the best and the brightest. Diversity in it’s best sense is not just picking people to be in your corporation or business (or armed forces) just because you need to fill a quota. Humanity is lost and people just become some kind of Easter egg in a basket “Oh, I’ve got a brown one and a yellow one…now I need a red one!”
Here’s something that promoters of diversity will never admit: Diversity can also breed conflict. Like groups of people are less likely to clash. That’s one of the reasons our nation has more crime…we have differing groups in our nation! If diversity is just an end to itself without the larger goal of assembling the best people for an organization then there will be conflict.
And Hasan is a terrorist. I don’t care how the media or bleeding heart types try to make him a victim. He’s a terrorist. I don’t need to understand why because a snake is a snake, a lion is a lion…and a scum bag terrorist is a scum bag terrorist.
Well said, The College Widow. The oddest thing to me about diversity is it typically leads to precisely what its proponents claim to wish to rectify. To paraphrase the perfect words of Dr. King, the goal is a world where exterior, genetic factors we have no control over are ignored and the content of our character is what is examined and rewarded.
PC and diversity advocates focus only on the color of one’s skin, or other, genetic or religious factors. Some of the best patriots I know aren’t WASPS. They are children of immigrants, or great grandchildren of American slaves. What does ethnicity or skin color or what gender you sleep with have to do with your character?
If you learn you have a rare form of brain cancer do you choose a physician based on her skin color, or religion, or based on her success rate curing the disease you have?
The military has been on the diversity (or PC) kick for at least a decade now. I watch AFN (Armed Forces Network), which has only military commercials, and at least 3/4 of the commercials are about PC topics: diversity, sexual harrassment, sexual assault, suicide, terrorism (anybody could be a terrorist – i.e. not only Muslims), etc. One Navy unit’s slogan is “strength through diversity.” To me accepting diversity is something we learn as a child. “Get along with others.” It’s common sense. Now it’s a politcally motivated word that makes people roll their eyes. There’s a ridiculous amount of “diversity training” in the military.
Interesting, Floyd’s sister, but we really aren’t interested in your opinions on this; we want dirt on Floyd. What kind of a baby was he? How old was he when he stopped wetting the bed? Has he stopped wetting the bed? Can you beat him up? You know, that kind of stuff…