It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Military News/Veterans => Topic started by: Pandora on March 08, 2011, 09:11:15 AM
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Being stuck in Kabul with crappy bandwidth is, apparently, a privilege that all those crackers are hogging: (http://theothermccain.com/2011/03/08/too-many-white-guys-in-u-s-military/)
The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.
Seventy-seven percent of senior officers in the active-duty military are white, while only 8 percent are black, 5 percent are Hispanic and 16 percent are women, the report by an independent panel said, quoting data from September 2008. . . .
“This problem will only become more acute as the racial, ethnic and cultural makeup of the United States continues to change,” said the report from the Military Leadership Diversity Commission, whose more than two dozen members included current and former military personnel as well as businessmen and other civilians.
My first reaction on reading this report was to think of Smitty, a squid stuck in landlocked Afghanistan. Too white, too male: Send him home!
My second thought was: “Military Leadership Diversity Commission? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Who dreamed that up?” Answer:
Under the provisions of The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, Section 596, Public Law 110-417, Congress established the Department of Defense (DoD) Military Leadership Diversity Commission (MLDC).
So this provision got jammed into the defense budget and now, two years later, we get this report — which provides the Obama administration an excuse to start messing around with the military under the guise of “enhancing diversity.”
My third reaction? Imagining our enemies laughing their butts off.
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Leftism is going to get us killed if we don't kill it first.
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I'll go for the latter!
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The only problem I've noticed in the last several years is that the military ( with the possible exception of the Marine Corps ) is top-heavy with "flag-rank" officers . I don't really look at color anymore . I thought that's the way it's supposed to be . There just seems to be more "stars" floatin' around than we need .
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Stalin's purges -- replacing military competence with "correct" politics -- sure worked out well. Why not this too?
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Cause and effect.
The economy sucks and unemployment is ridiculous.
Schools keep churning out graduates but there is no place for them to go.
Hence, the military starts to look pretty attractive to young people who would otherwise be going into college or the workplace.
Which means that the military recruiters are facing a bumper crop of better than average applicants. They can pick and choose. And they do. Recruiters will not accept anyone without a high school diploma because they don't have to to meet their quota. Drugs? No way. They don't accept anyone who has even minor infractions with the law because they don't have to. They can even discriminate on the basis of piercings and tattoos if they like...because they don't have to accept anyone they don't care for.
If this picking and choosing of military applicants results in a higher percentage of one particular demographic, what does that tell you about the rejects?
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As compared to the rest of the population the Military as a whole is more diverse than any other "entity" that there is.
but hey, what could go wrong............
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(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc107/gunnyroy911/liberal_gorillas.gif)
Funny, they don't smell too white!
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I've been thinking about this a bit more. Do you suppose this could have anything to do with wanting a more "flexible" command structure should certain eventualities come to pass? By that I mean, a military command staff with fewer objections about going Qadaffi on American civilians should The Regime deem it necessary?
::foilhathelicopter::
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I've been thinking about this a bit more. Do you suppose this could have anything to do with wanting a more "flexible" command structure should certain eventualities come to pass? By that I mean, a military command staff with fewer objections about going Qadaffi on American civilians should The Regime deem it necessary?
::foilhathelicopter::
No, it's not the order-givers; they're already falling in line; it's the order-takers. I believe the goal is a more docile, less loyal to the Constitutional, dumber service, period, whom will be willing to follow the orders from an already-compromised command. As it stands now, and assurances from elsewhere to the contrary, I don't entirely trust the military to not follow orders to shoot. Particularly when economics get worse, which of them are going to sacrifice, or jeopardize, food and shelter for their loved ones? Right now, they're majority White from mostly southern states, but we know there are muslims, gang members, and illegals seeded in their ranks.
Once they've affirmative-actioned in those with lower IQs, and that's the inevitable result of di-VER-sity, read: lowering standards to get more "color", all bets are off, IMO.
I hate to say it and if anyone can show me different, I'll gladly stand corrected.
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Pinkos at the Pentagram? :o
Yup, the newer dumber, fatter military. "Hey, that's my Twinkie!"
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“Everyone that comes into the military has an equal opportunity to get promoted to the next level. It is not about outside entities trying to engineer and design results and outcomes or create a sense of equal achievement and when some military diversity group writes a report saying there are too many white men on top,” West said. “It is kind of a slap in the face to those who have risen through the ranks such as four star General [Lloyd] Austin, [General] Kip Ward, many others. We don’t need these outside entities trying to design or shape a military.”
http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/11/rep-allen-west-slams-military-diversity-report/
H/T: WeaselZippers
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No, it's not the order-givers; they're already falling in line; it's the order-takers. I believe the goal is a more docile, less loyal to the Constitutional, dumber service, period, whom will be willing to follow the orders from an already-compromised command. As it stands now, and assurances from elsewhere to the contrary, I don't entirely trust the military to not follow orders to shoot. Particularly when economics get worse, which of them are going to sacrifice, or jeopardize, food and shelter for their loved ones? Right now, they're majority White from mostly southern states, but we know there are muslims, gang members, and illegals seeded in their ranks.
Once they've affirmative-actioned in those with lower IQs, and that's the inevitable result of di-VER-sity, read: lowering standards to get more "color", all bets are off, IMO.
I have been seriously concerned about this for a long time, and I've commented about it in various places. It is in the interest of the Left to drive out educated, motivated, patriotic Americans from the ranks of the military and replace them with ignorant thugs and gangbangers.
Then they will come after our guns, and anything else they want to confiscate.
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H/T VIA at grouchies:
This is what West has to say about it.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/11/rep-allen-west-slams-military-diversity-report/#ixzz1GOQsk9oe (http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/11/rep-allen-west-slams-military-diversity-report/#ixzz1GOQsk9oe)
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In an interview with The Daily Caller, West, who is black, was not pleased with the report, saying that the military is not a social experiment for outside groups to impose their theories. Rather, he said, it is a merit based organization where anybody can succeed.
Was. Was a merit based organization.
“Everyone that comes into the military has an equal opportunity to get promoted to the next level.
Nah tanymore. I give you Major Hassan and Private Bradley Manning as examples of unequal opportunity.
I fully understand his motive and opinion, but Col. West would better serve as a teller of truth on this issue if he actually told the Truth about what has already been done to the military.
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Is it a cynical ploy to over run our military with non-whites, so that the military will be loya to them as opposed to the constitution?
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I think Pan is right. I don't disagree with what West said, but Pan fleshes out the nature and purpose behind the social experimentation policies of the proglodytes, We see evidence of this everywhere. And it is not limited to just the military. Another police force just recently (DC?) is lowering its testing standards (again) because "not enough minorities" are on the force. The plan is to so dumb-down and politicize police and military forces so that ultimately they will be answerable only to the socialist oligarchy and it is then that the last vestiges of freedom and liberty in this land will be lost forever.
Caveat Emptor!
"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing." —Edmund Burke
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The plan is to so dumb-down and politicize police and military forces so that ultimately they will be answerable only to the socialist oligarchy and it is then that the last vestiges of freedom and liberty in this land will be lost forever.
Think about it: if these folks can't cut the mustard in the private sector, which, judging from the test results, they can't, a "quota'd" government job is ideal. What orders won't they be willing to follow in order to stay on the gravy train?
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The plan is to so dumb-down and politicize police and military forces so that ultimately they will be answerable only to the socialist oligarchy and it is then that the last vestiges of freedom and liberty in this land will be lost forever.
Think about it: if these folks can't cut the mustard in the private sector, which, judging from the test results, they can't, a "quota'd" government job is ideal. What orders won't they be willing to follow in order to stay on the gravy train?
I dunno. Sends a bloody chill down my spine and sets off a nuclear blast of anger in my gut all at the same time!
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The true intent and purpose of the 2nd Amendment is illuminated more each day. The Left's motive in undermining it is also made crystal clear.
The Founders had very fresh memories of a military and constabulary beholden to personalities rather than law & citizen.