The Ultimate goal of an Anti - American Individual, is to destroy the nation, or render it useless.
I simply ask the question, What person who loves their country, has an appreciation for it's greatness, and a concern for it's citizens, does this? As you can see in this article, the President is not of alone, but have many operatives doing his bidding. Combine that with shortsightedness from the complicit, so-called opposition of the RINO's, (i.e. McCain, Graham, Collins) and some spineless wimps (i.e. Boehner, Ryan, McConnell) and we have a recipe for disaster.
Obama 'weakening military in unprecedented ways'
Posted By F. Michael Maloof On 11/10/2013 @ 4:00 pm In Front Page,Politics,U.S. | No Comments
WASHINGTON – The U.S. military, which has seen generals and other high-level officers relieved of duty at an unprecedented rate
during the Obama administration, is in trouble largely because of the
radical social experimentation being forced upon it, according to the Center for Military Readiness.
CMR’s president, Elaine Donnelly, said in an interview with WND that
officers have gotten the Obama administration’s message of political
correctness – “and most have been virtually silent ever since.”
Under Obama, she said, budgets for the military have been slashed,
SEAL Team Six members exposed as the ones who killed Osama Bin Laden,
open homosexuality introduced and service members pressed into service
to hold an umbrella over the president during the rain.
During the Reagan administration, Donnelly was appointed by Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women
in the Services. And in 1992, Pres. George H. W. Bush likewise appointed
her to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the
Armed Forces.
Donnelly says Obama has done “great damage” to the military by taking
away resources and imposing “heavy burdens of social experimentation.”
“But most flag and general officers are following orders, keeping
their heads down and, in my opinion, letting down the troops,” she said.
Although the president is “weakening our military in unprecedented
ways,” she reiterated, “the brass has remained largely silent since the
spring of 2010.”
And she believes the Obama administration is taking advantage of this silence among military leaders.
“Due to dissembling and deception from the military’s uniformed and
civilian leaders, President Obama is seizing the opportunity to
radically change and weaken the culture of the military,” Donnelly told
WND. “The president’s objective is ‘gender diversity’ in the combat
arms, and the Joint Chiefs, so far, have persuaded Congress that they
need not intervene.”
“Liberal activists,” she said, are seeking to remove all military opposition “to their most radical objectives.”
In this connection, she said the Military Leadership Diversity Commission
has recommended in its “DoD-endorsed report” that officers’ promotions
be contingent on support for “gender diversity metrics,” which she says
is another name for quotas.
“This is not a secret – the problem is there, hidden in plain sight,” Donnelly said.
Part of the problem, she points out, is that the armed forces defend
individual rights, but the military itself is governed by different
rules under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
“Under the UCMJ,” she said, “members of the military are not free to
publicly disparage the commander-in-chief, Congress and other officials.
This is as it should be, but the (Obama) administration is taking
advantage of the military’s culture of obedience,” she said.
“Because everyone must follow orders, the military is [no longer] a
conservative institution. It is on the cutting edge of social
experimentation.”
WND has been reporting on the removal of large numbers of commanding
officers and generals since Obama took office, including nine such cases
this year alone. Several retired generals have accused the Obama administration of a “purge” and have linked the removals to political and social agendas.
Gen. Carter Ham was one of three generals who later retired following
the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate and CIA
special mission facility in Benghazi, Libya. He had criticized the lack
of timely reinforcements to protect these facilities. Following the
terrorist attack on Benghazi, Ham said he had wanted to send
reinforcements to stop the attack, which killed U.S. Ambassador
Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, two of whom were former
SEALs.
While others contend Ham was given a stand-down order but defied it,
he said he didn’t get the order. He was relieved of his command and
retired.
Two other senior officers were immediately relieved of their commands along with Ham.
One was Rear Adm. Charles Gaouette, who commanded the Carrier Strike
Group in the area at the time. After Gaouette contended aircraft could
have been sent to Libya in time to help the Americans under fire, he was
removed from his post for alleged profanity and making “racially
insensitive comments.”
Another was Maj. Gen. Ralph Baker, commander of the Combined Joint
Task Force Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti, Africa. Baker
contended attack helicopters could have reached the consulate in time on
the night of the attack.
Donnelly
leveled some criticism at Ham, noting he was an adviser to the
committee that investigated the jihadist attack at Fort Hood, which
produced a report calling the attack “workplace violence.”
Ham also served as co-chair of the Comprehensive Review Working
Group, or CRWG, which, contents Donnelly, rather than a study was more
of a vehicle “to promote repeal of the 1993 ['Don't Ask, Don't Tell']
law.”
She added that Ham was “largely absent” during a process controlled
by Jeh Johnson, who has been general counsel of the Department of
Defense since 2009. Last month Obama nominated Johnson, a civil and
criminal trial lawyer prior to government service, to become the next
secretary of homeland security. The Senate will begin consideration the
nomination this week.
Donnelly had uncovered the DOD Inspector General report that revealed
Johnson had discussed the results of a survey among military personnel
about LGBT – before the survey was conducted.
That survey, which critics say Johnson evidently manipulated, showed
military personnel had no objection to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell.”
“The military has no mechanism to find out why people leave the
military,” Donnelly said. “I think they really do not want to know.
“There is no question about social issues on the exit survey form,”
she added. “This allows the administration to claim all is going well.
When Jeh Johnson goes before the Senate for confirmation, he will no
doubt make such claims.”
Yet Donnelly said problems under LGBT law will only increase as time
passes. Sexual assaults have been on the rise, she noted, principally
male-on-male assaults.
She pointed out that the administration had dropped any legal defense
of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, within weeks after a lame-duck
Congress voted to repeal the 1993 law.
In characterizing the direction of the administration as pushing its
social experimentation on the Defense Department, Donnelly noted that
the DOD has extended benefits to same-sex couples.
“Now, the ‘Ts’ in LGBT are pushing for recognition and rights, too,”
she said. “Flag and general officers have been almost completely silent
on all of this. I wish there were signs of resistance, but the
administration is using the military’s culture of obedience to push an
extremely liberal agenda that former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen
called ‘Diversity as a strategic imperative.’”
Even the Defense Department’s chief of personnel and readiness, she
said, has called “diversity and inclusion” critical to “mission
success.”
Rather than a “purge,” as some generals have called it, Donnelly
says, “I see capitulation at the top levels of military leadership. It’s
up to Congress, and civilians who vote for Congress, to start
exercising responsible oversight, and to insist on a restoration of high
standards and sound priorities in the military. It is the only one we
have.”
A number of former military, including former Florida Congressman
Allen West, are alarmed over an exit of top-level military officers. West now is calling for congressional oversight hearings
into what he calls an “alarming trend” of dismissals and firings of
high-ranking military officers by the Obama administration, firings that
in a number of cases appear to be political.
West, who as congressman served on the House Armed Services
Committee, said he recently had been in contact with Committee Chairman
Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon – calling for hearings “to determine exactly
why” so many officers, especially senior officers, are being given the
boot.
“McKeon needs to look at this problem,” West told WND. “There needs to be transparency. It is important to get the truth.”
Others have even stronger feelings.
In a recent interview with WND,
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, who was the deputy commanding
general of the Pacific Command, similarly accused Obama’s close adviser,
Valerie Jarrett, of orchestrating the imposition of “political
correctness” throughout the military, affecting everyone from top
generals to the ranks of the enlisted.
In pinning the blame on Jarrett, reportedly Obama’s closest and most
influential adviser, Vallely suggested her far-left, politically correct
influence is forcing senior officers to watch everything military
personnel say and do.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, says in a story by The Blaze, that Jarrett influences nearly every policy issue at the White House.
“She seems to have her tentacles into every issue and every topic,” Chaffetz says. “Her name ultimately always comes up.”
The Washington Post has written about Jarrett as the president’s “mysterious” adviser.
And author Ed Klein, former editor-in-chief of the New York Times magazine, said in a Washington Times report
that Jarrett was the secret “architect” of the Obama strategy to shut
down the government and blame it on congressional Republicans.
London’s Daily Mail newspaper notes
that Jarrett’s insider nickname is “Night Stalker” because of her
exclusive, late-night access to the presidential family’s private
quarters.
According to Vallely, Obama is “intentionally weakening and gutting
our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in
the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”
Vallely served in the Vietnam War and retired in 1993 as deputy
Commanding General, Pacific Command. Today, he is chairman of the
Military Committee for the Center for Security Policy and is co-author
of the book “Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror.”
In addition to Vallely, a number of prominent retired generals – from
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, a founder of the Army’s elite Delta Force,
to Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. Patrick Henry Brady – have also gone on the record with WND on this issue.
They’ve described Obama’s actions as nothing less than an all-out attack on America’s armed forces.
Brady, recipient of the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the Medal
of Honor, said Obama’s agenda is decimating the morale of the U.S.
ranks to the point members no longer feel prepared to fight or have the
desire to win.
“There is no doubt he [Obama] is intent on emasculating the military
and will fire anyone who disagrees with him” over such issues as
“homosexuals, women in foxholes, the Obama sequester,” Brady told WND.
“They are purging everyone, and if you want to keep your job, just keep your mouth shut,” another military source told WND.
Not only are military service members being demoralized and the
ranks’ overall readiness being reduced by the Obama administration’s
purge of key leaders, colonels – those lined up in rank to replace
outgoing generals – are quietly taking their careers in other
directions.
Boykin, who was a founding member of Delta Force and later deputy
undersecretary of defense for intelligence under President George W.
Bush, says it is worrying that four-star generals are being retired at
the rate that has occurred under Obama.
“Over the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of
four-star generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved
for cause,” Boykin said.
“I believe there is a purging of the military,” he said. “The problem is worse than we have ever seen.”
The future of the military is becoming more and more of concern,
added Boykin, since colonels who would become generals are also being
relieved of duty if they show that they’re not going to support Obama’s
agenda, which critics have described as socialist.
“I talk to a lot of folks who don’t support where Obama is taking the
military, but in the military they can’t say anything,” Boykin said.
As a consequence, he said, the lower grades have decided to leave,
having been given the signal that there is no future in the military for
them.
Brady, who was a legendary “Dust Off” air ambulance pilot in Vietnam and detailed his experiences in his book, “Dead Men Flying: Victory in Viet Nam,”
told WND, “The problem is military people will seldom, while on duty,
go on the record over such issues, and many will not ever, no matter how
true. I hear from many off the record who are upset with the current
military leadership and some are leaving and have left in the past.”
Brady referred to additional problems in today’s military including
“girly-men leadership [and] medals for not shooting and operating a
computer. This president will never fight if there is any reason to
avoid it and with a helpless military he can just point to our weakness
and shrug his shoulders.”
Likewise, retired Navy Capt. Joseph John tells WND
that the “bigger picture” is that “the U.S. Armed Forces have been
under relentless attack by the occupant of the Oval Office for five
years.”
“I believe there are more than 137 officers who have been forced out
or given bad evaluation reports so they will never make Flag (officer),
because of their failure to comply to certain views,” said John.
“The truly sad story is that many of the brightest graduates of the
three major service academies witnessing what the social experiment on
diversity … is doing to the U.S. military, are leaving the service after
five years,” he said. “We are being left with an officer corps that can
be made to be more compliant, that is, exactly what Obama needs to
effect his long range goals for the U.S. military.”
