AFTER AFGHANISTAN DISASTER, THE PENTAGON IS ON TRACK TO GET EVEN MORE MONEY

 

 

The defeat in Afghanistan offers a chance to rethink America’s war machine, but Congress is on the verge of raising military spending to $740 billion.

 

 

 

AROUND MIDDAY ON August 15, the president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, was told by an adviser that Taliban fighters had entered the presidential palace and were looking for him room by room. This was not true, but Ghani, aware that ousted presidents do not have long lives in his country, hurried himself and his wife to a military helicopter and fled for Uzbekistan. Without time to fetch any personal belongings, he left Kabul in plastic sandals and a thin coat, according to a Washington Post account of that day.

 

Afghanistan was supposed to be the “good war” after 9/11, the one with a legitimate purpose and a happy ending. That also didn’t turn out to be true, but while the war’s momentum favored the Taliban for years, its final act had the suddenness of a guillotine, with a lot more pain. At Kabul’s airport, desperate Afghans clung to the sides of a departing U.S. cargo plane. Panicked families tried to get onto the diminishing number of evacuation flights. And 13 U.S. troops helping keep the airport open were killed in a suicide bombing. Just before midnight on August 30, the last U.S. aircraft and the last U.S. soldier got out of Kabul.

 

This defeat could have been an opportunity to rethink the logic of America’s war machine. That’s what defeats often do: They force you to reconsider the destructive tendencies that got you into the hole. One of those tendencies has been a nearly ceaseless rise in military spending that has little popular support. Even before the fall of Kabul, opinion polls consistently showed that only a minority of Americans think that the U.S. should spend more on its defense — just 26 percent in a survey conducted by Gallup in February. And on the day that the U.S. got out of Afghanistan, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., the lone member of Congress to vote against the invasion in 2001, called on Republicans as well as Democrats to finally reconfigure the nation’s spending priorities. “Now is the time to shift our investments away from endless wars and toward addressing human needs,” she said.

 

Guess what happened?

 

To understand the next step, you need to go back to April, when President Joe Biden proposed a $715 billion Pentagon budget for 2022, which represented a 1.6 percent increase from 2021. Progressives like Lee were not pleased — and were even less pleased in late July when the Senate Armed Services Committee added $25 billion to Biden’s proposal. This “plus-up,” as it’s called, raised the budget to $740 billion, a 5 percent increase over the previous year. At that rate, military spending over the next decade would easily exceed $7 trillion, or four times more than the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better program that Biden is trying to push through Congress.

That was the legislative prelude to Lee’s call for new priorities. Two days later, on September 2, the House Armed Services Committee met to consider the military budget, and as expected, an amendment was introduced by the ranking Republican to match the Senate increase. This set off a debate in which one of the strongest backers of the plus-up was a Democrat, Rep. Elaine Luria, a former Navy officer whose Virginia district includes the naval station in Norfolk.

 

“In one word, we can sum up the ‘why,’ and that’s China,” Luria said. “We are ending our longest conflict of 20 years, but more than ever, the world is watching what we do here today. … Right now there are malign actors who seek to attack us and do us harm.”

 

This has been a reliable power move over the decades: When one threat fades away, another seems to come along at just the right time. The so-called war on terror is a spent force, but now there is China, which devotes two-thirds less to its defense than the U.S. and is not known to be planning any 9/11-style attacks on the homeland — but is having a conveniently timed “Sputnik moment.”

 

In the end, the committee voted 42-17 to increase the budget, with 14 Democrats joining 28 Republicans. The committee spent far more time debating critical race theory (about two hours) than the amendment to cut the budget (about 30 minutes).

 

“It’s as if we have learned nothing from the past 20 years,” said Rep. Sara Jacobs, a Democrat from California, during the debate. She noted that rather than pumping money into the military, more resources could go toward diplomacy, education, infrastructure, and public health. “That is what will determine if we are competitive with China, not whether we have one more F-35 that even the Pentagon says they don’t need,” she concluded.

 

The fundamental idea behind her argument was evoked during the Vietnam War by Martin Luther King Jr., who warned in 1967: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

 

 

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2021/11/07/military-spending-pentagon-afghanistan/

 

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Veterans say exposure to huge burning waste dumps in Iraq and Afghanistan is now killing them

 

 By ABC North America correspondent Barbara Miller

 

 

Julie Tomáška knew that living in the shadow of a burning waste dump the size of football field couldn't be good for her.

How could she not?

"No matter where we were, no matter how the wind shifted, we were smelling and kind of breathing in the smoke and the soot from these burn pits ... 24 hours a day," she said.

The burn pit was the inescapable backdrop to life on the Balad air base in Iraq for Staff Sergeant Tomáška and her colleagues from the Minnesota Air National Guard during her two tours of duty in 2005 and 2007.

The pits were used by the US military across Iraq and Afghanistan to dispose of pretty much anything – styrofoam plates from the canteen, electronics, chemicals, classified materials, contraband and even bombed-out vehicles.

When the flames died down, jet fuel was used as accelerant.

"It permeates everything and there's a layer of soot on everything," Julie Tomáška said.

"You just can't escape the smell."

 

At the time, Sergeant Tomáška and her colleagues deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom would joke about it.

"You sort of have a morbid sense of humour in a situation like that," the now 42-year-old said.

"We sort of stepped back and said, 'Well, this is really going to come back to bite us.'"

Lungs left 'scarred' and 'rigid' 

Years after she returned home to Minnesota, the prophecy came true when Julie Tomáška was diagnosed with deployment-related lung disease.

Specifically, she's been told she has a range of conditions, including constrictive bronchiolitis, chronic pleuritis, and pleural fibrosis.

"It basically means that my lungs, the airways, are scarred. The small airways are very scarred, and rigid, so I can't get a full breath," she said.

"I've had to learn just to live life very slowly, and sort of take things at a slower pace, and realise that if I overdo one day, I'll pay for it for three."

Julie Tomáška was able to navigate what she says is a complex system to get some health benefits from the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

Thousands of others, who suspect illnesses ranging from respiratory conditions to cancer are linked to their deployments in the 9/11 wars as well as the first Iraq war, are still going through the process of diagnosis.

"I can see why a lot of veterans just stop. You know, they stopped pushing it because it's overwhelming," she said. 

"It takes an insurmountable amount of time. I've gone through every test three times, practically."

Claims for benefits rejected

The Department of Veterans Affairs set up a burn pits registry in 2014 to help "better understand the potential health effects of burn pits and other exposures".

To date more than 200,000 people have registered, but the majority of burn pit-related benefits claims submitted so far have been rejected.

The department recently announced that any vets exposed in Iraq and Afghanistan to burn pits and subsequently diagnosed with one of three respiratory conditions – asthma, sinusitis, or rhinitis – will automatically get disability benefits.

But advocates say many more illnesses should be added to that list.

"For them to just continue to give little breadcrumbs like this is almost an insult," said Ms Tomáška, who has now retired from the military.

The department says it is actively studying the impacts of airborne hazards like burn pits and other military environmental exposure, but advocates want action now.

Their campaign has the support of comedian Jon Stewart, who has previously spearheaded an emotionally-charged campaign for health care for 9/11 first responders exposed to cancer-causing toxins in the ruins of the World Trade Center.

Now, he's lobbying Congress on the burn pits issue. 

"If you can't take care of the people who protect the country and take care of you ... I believe the phrase would be 'yikes'," Stewart said at a recent press conference.

"There is no country that talks a better game for its veterans, but boy are we letting them down in this circumstance."

Burn pit stench was 'out of control'

Julie Tomáška continues to campaign, in part because of her own health troubles, but also because she's making good on a promise to a friend. 

Her close colleague Aime Muller, who was on the same Iraq deployments, died of pancreatic cancer in 2017 at the age of 36.

Aime Muller left behind a husband, two young children and a teenage daughter.

"When you hear those two words, 'pancreatic cancer', most people know that it's kind of a death sentence," her husband Brian said.

"She did all the things she was supposed to do: all the chemo, the cocktail, three different chemo regimens together.

"She didn't even think twice and she tried to fight, for our kids, for our family. But nine months later she was gone."

In a haunting entry in a journal she kept for her young daughter, Aime Muller wrote of her concerns about working and sleeping next to the burn pits.

"There is a huge garbage pit on the perimeter of the base (inside)", she wrote in an entry dated May 25, 2005.

"They continuously burn plastics, rubber, you name it and the stench is OUT OF CONTROL.

"I swear, if I get any type of pulmonary disease, this is where it came from."

Aime Muller's cancer was never officially linked to burn pit exposure, but her family is convinced that's what killed her.

"What they did was wrong, especially right next to a base," Brian Muller said.

"They could have figured out many other alternatives to make it safer for our troops. Instead, they put them in harm's way. That was worse than the war itself."

Links to cancer plausible 

Dr Cecile Rose has been studying the impacts of burn pits and other deployment-related toxins for the past decade, with some of the work funded by the US Department of Defense.

The pulmonologist at the National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado has seen around 300 returned vets who have a range of deployment-related conditions, including rhinitis, sinusitis, emphysema, asthma and bronchitis.

Dr Rose believes that is probably just "the tip of the iceberg".

"You have a generally healthy, fit, young adult population, who then come back with often disabling respiratory symptoms, including shortness of breath, that prohibit them from passing the fitness requirements of the military, and that also affect their quality of life," Dr Rose said. 

She said there was not yet any longitudinal data on other conditions, including cancer.

But she said it was possible there were links.

"It certainly is plausible that some cancers may be linked to exposures to things like burn pit combustion products, because we know that there are carcinogens in the smoke," she said. 

President Joe Biden has frequently linked the death of his son Beau in 2015 to his exposure to burn pits in Iraq.

Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015, served as a major in the Delaware Army National Guard and was deployed to Iraq in 2008-9.

Addressing service members in May this year, the President said his son went to Iraq "as an incredibly healthy, young man and came back with a severe brain tumour because his hooch was just downwind from those burn pits".

"I don't know if that's the reason, but he came home and it was just a matter of how long he lived," Mr Biden said.

The President's personal involvement is one reason advocates are hopeful Congress will soon pass legislation which will see vets who served in the vicinity of burn pits automatically granted access to health care and disability benefits if they fall ill.

"I think it's important that we don't allow burn pits to become the Agent Orange for this generation," said Aleks Morosky, an Iraq vet turned lobbyist with the Wounded Warrior Project, which advocates for veterans.

An estimated 3.5 million US service members were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and in some of the surrounding areas during the wars which followed the September 11 attacks.

"Use of burn pits, toxic exposure, exposure to desert sands and other environmental hazards was so widespread that really, any single one of them could be at risk, and could develop a condition at some point along the way," Mr Morosky said.

If the potential costs for covering those sound astronomical, it doesn't worry Aleks Morosky.

"War is expensive," he said.

"The time to act is now."

The sentiment is echoed by Julie Tomáška.

"People are dying, waiting. They're dying quite frequently waiting for care. And that's just not acceptable."

 

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-10/us-veterans-say-burn-pits-iraq-afghanistan-now-killing-them/100594934

 

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Former US President Donald Trump has a well-deserved reputation for speaking candidly. At an event at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump recounted a conversation that caused him to become convinced that General Mark Milley, the US' highest-ranking military official, “was a f**king idiot."

Trump, speaking at an event hosted by the right-wing Turning Point Action group, told a story over the weekend about a conversation he had with US General Mark Milley over the hectic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Trump told the crowd that he had said to Milley: "The moment we get out [of Afghanistan], I want every nut, every bolt, every screw... we're taking everything, we're taking down the tents."

 

Trump continued his Saturday speech: "They left all the tents. They left everything," adding, in a rhetorical query for those listening, "Couldn't they have flown in a couple of hundred pilots and flown the planes out?"

 

The story then turned to Trump’s interactions with Milley when the former was president.

 

Trump recounted, "I'll never forget Milley saying to me, 'Sir, sir. It's cheaper to leave the equipment than to bring it.'" According to Trump, he then asked Milley, "You think it's cheaper to leave it there so they can have it than it is to fill it up with a half tank of gas and fly it into Pakistan or fly it back to our country?"

 

Trump then claimed that the former answered him, "'Yes, sir, we think it's cheaper, sir.'" To which Trump went to the punch line of his story: "That's when I realized he was a f**king idiot."

 

 

 

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Let us talk plainly about the end of the world as we have known it for generations. A dark age is on the horizon, and there’s precious little time for humanity to prevent an unprecedented catastrophe. In the words of a great statesman from this era, “The cost of ill-conceived social experiments is sometimes beyond estimation.” And the experiment we in the world find ourselves in now will certainly end in a dystopian nightmare.

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin was cited by many media outlets after making a case that western civilization is on the brink of collapse during a discussion at the recent Valdai Club meeting. I’ve read through his remarks, which are not just spot on, but deeply prophetic. Putin likened the Woke situation and the gender fluidity nonsense in America to what happened when the Bolcheviks took over in 1917. Americans do not do well understanding political science, unless they major in the subject at the university, so Bolshevism is not a term they get. Socialism, for most Americans, is a catch all derogatory easier on the tongue than “Them Communists.” Putin said:

“After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks, relying on the dogmas of Marx and Engels, also said that they would change existing ways and customs and not just political and economic ones, but the very notion of human morality and the foundations of a healthy society. The destruction of age-old values, religion and relations between people, up to and including the total rejection of family (we had that, too), encouragement to inform on loved ones — all this was proclaimed progress and, by the way, was widely supported around the world back then and was quite fashionable, same as today.”

The ideas Putin exerts here are super important for understanding the state of our world today. In America, for instance, people do not care to draw lines of distinction between socialism and communism, and most have no idea who the Bolsheviks were, let alone the parallels with happenings in America today. The looming dictatorship hovering over my country now, is as invisible to the average American as the Nikolas II and his family being gunned down in Yekaterinburg. The moral fiber of my country is ripped even farther than War torn and destitute Russia was at the time of the revolution. Forces and ideas similar to those of Vladimir Lenin are now working to shred what’s left of western civilization.

His commentary on degradation western values came as a warning of further disjointedness and trouble. He cited the COVID-19 pandemic experience, much in the same way many of us have, but adding that global governance institutions need “fine tuning” instead of proclaiming these institutions as total failures. Here on the ground in Greece, however, the fact that leadership has failed to tackle the challenges posed by the dynamics of global processes is acute. Short version, Mr. Putin was actually playing nice in his commentary at the Valdai conference. Still, the Russian leader’s observations carry an ominous message and repercussions for most Americans. Putin continued:

“Some people in the West believe that an aggressive elimination of entire pages from their own history, ‘reverse discrimination’ against the majority in the interests of a minority, and the demand to give up the traditional notions of mother, father, family and even gender, they believe that all of these are the mileposts on the path towards social renewal.”

Once again, Russia’s president was gentle in his assessment of the Woke trends raging in America. He called the huge shift in morality and tradition “structural disruptions,” rather than referring to the decimation of the family unit and a way of life for what it really is. He was more vehement where children are concerned, a soft spot we’ve seen from the Russian leader many times. He referred to gender destruction for kids as “truly monstrous things when children are taught from an early age that a boy can easily become a girl and vice versa.” He went on to observe that children are being able to “determine” such life changing things without so much as a consultation with a child psychologist. But for us observing the horrors, only one question really matters. Is Vladimir Putin right? Is the liberal order engaged in “crimes against humanity?”

Many in my country, perhaps even a majority, believe that Donald Trump losing to Joe Biden was a fundamental shift away from any sense of conservatism. And whether or not Americans like the former president or not, nothing about the new order is either moderate or conservative at its core. Like Bolshevism, the far left standing behind Joe Biden (or perhaps even Trump as a spoiler) aims to usurp America’s core value proposition and call it “liberty.” The social experiment America is now going through, will end up in another type of holocaust. Interestingly, publicist Paweł Jędrzejewski at Salon 24 in Poland, characterizes American “wokeness” in this way:

“Wokeness in the United States is characterized by everything that marked these phenomena in history, such as the fanaticism of religious wars during the counter-reformation, the amok of absolute faith and obedience to Stalin during the Stalinist terror, the brutality of the Maoist “cultural revolution” in China in the second half of the sixties of the twentieth century.” 

The publicist and advocate of the ideas of Emil Fackenheim goes on to say that this current trend is a process for breaking with any rational and logical thinking, and a “complete submission to feelings, first of all, hatred of the existing world, without any restrictions whatsoever. It is not about strategy, nor about achieving change – it is about its absolute extremism, fanaticism, and a path to the end of days. The goal is to completely destroy what western civilization is based on and replace it with chaos.

The reader will find it interesting that a disciple of a Jewish philosopher, Russia’s president, and a Georgia boy from America’s south share a common fear. Emil Fackenheim, for those unfamiliar, was a reform rabbi who fought to prevent what some referred to as a “posthumous victory for Hitler.” I’ve no space here to go into a new moral imperative for Judaism crystallized in the “614th commandment” (or “614th mitzvah”). The point of my citing Jędrzejewski is to show the battle lines have no national or regional borders. The ideas being decimated in my country and elsewhere, by those who would destroy our future, they’re an ideological war declaration. This is why Putin, and if we’re accurate the majority of the Russian people, are so adamantly against these “woke’ upheavals. Russians already experienced what happens “next” if the liberal order succeeds.

Right now, you can already witness a new “Kristallnacht” (or the Night of Broken Glass) taking shape not in Nazi Germany, but in the United States of America. And you don’t have to fly to New York or LA to see. On Facebook people are being accused of “not being sufficiently ‘awake’ – or in some circles your “wokeness” is not authentic, as Jędrzejewski suggests. Mr. Putin, contrary to what liberal media propagates, is probably the best friend America and the rest of the westerners ever had. I’d like to see their arguments, their proof, that Vladmir Putin is wrong in all this. History is on his side. Rational thinking is. And for the believers around the world, God must be as well. What we are discussing here is the apocalypse, and nothing short of that.

The purge this time around will won’t be yellow stars of David painted on people and places, it will be geocoordinates and rounding up dissenters. The Wokeness army aims for something you could call “Day Zero” when the future and past of humanity are “recalibrated.” This is not some grass roots movement, but a top-down idealistic schism that took root in academia, to be funded by lunatic elites who believe a moral Armageddon is in their best interest. Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover institute calls these ideas; “bastard offshoots of harebrained “critical theory,” which arose from a demoralized and adrift Europe after the cataclysms of two devastating European-spawned world wars.”

So, you see how the irony highlights the situation when even Russophobes support the same logic as Russia’s vilified leader. And, no, this is not about Trump being a Putin puppet. The truth is far from that. Trump, in my view, is the Manchucian Candidate of the liberal order. I’ve discussed this previously. What is crucial now is for sanity to prevail over demoralizing, nonsensical rule. We must defeat chaos and put in place what Putin refers to as reasonable conservatism as the foundation for a political course” for the future. Sanity must prevail, in other words. Humanity does not need right or left extremist ideologies going forward. We all know the ends of these methods. As time and problems grow more critical, the world needs pragmatism and cooperation, not more chaos. If we are to avoid the darkest age ever, or perhaps even the ultimate end, we have to come to our senses now.

 

 

Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

 

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For many comic fans, the news of the bisexuality of the new Superman - Clark Kent's son Jon - was a trigger. Some people objected to the new take on the iconic superhero, and their objections were even reflected in the sales of the new comic series about Superman. But should a bisexual Superman be that much of a surprise?

The new Superman, Jon Kent, who inherited the superhero mantle from his dad Clark Kent, appeared to have caused waves among the community of comic fans and other observers who seem indifferent to the lifestyle of a fictional character. Yet, he is not the only queer superhero in the universe of DC Comics.

The resentment of the younger Kent's bisexuality even seemed to have affected sales: the flagship comic book is not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to sales by dollar (it only secured 45th place as of December 2021, according to ICv2), and it's not even in the chart when it comes to sales by units.

One may ponder as to whether such commercial misfortunes stem from DC Comics "having so many queer superheroes right now it's almost not a big deal", as noted by Polygon's entertainment editor Susana Polo. Indeed, Jon Kent is definitely not the first queer person in the diverse world of DC superheroes.

 

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 Biden’s latest hire has an openly deviant lifestyle. A sign of progress, or moral decay?

 

Sam Brinton’s appointment to a top US nuclear role poses legitimate questions given his self-confessed bizarre sexual proclivities... 

A colorful new hire of the Biden administration, “queer activist” Sam Brinton, is making waves on social media for his strange appearance and openly deviant lifestyle.

Brinton, who is a proud drag queen and “pup handler” – in other words, someone who leads gay men dressed in fetish gear around as they pretend to be dogs, before having sex with them – has been appointed to a high-ranking position in the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy.

On paper, a candidate with dual Masters degrees in nuclear and mechanical engineering from MIT would seem like a perfect fit. Brinton also has experience in the corridors of power, having previously advised the Obama White House on LGBTQ+ issues and worked with Congress on nuclear policy. His bio makes clear he has a solid professional background.

But Brinton’s public lifestyle is unsuited to the demands of a high-ranking public government position. 

Holding an important position in the DOE would ostensibly require him to interact with his foreign counterparts in China, Russia, and Iran – or any other country with a semblance of normalcy. In the case of Iran, a fundamentalist Muslim country with nuclear ambitions, the presence of an openly deviant drag queen would undoubtedly strain conversations, given that he would face persecution for his sexual proclivities there. 

Brinton’s hire is an example of the Biden administration’s woke initiatives towards “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI),” which also included the appointment of Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender health official to the Department of Health and Human Services. Levine was sworn in as the country’s first four-star admiral.

It shouldn’t be surprising that the Biden administration allows people suffering from woke hysteria and loose morals to rise to high-ranking government positions, as even Vice President Kamala Harris has joined in with her embrace of pronoun rituals.

As detailed by Colin Wright for the Wall Street Journal, “Participating in pronoun rituals makes you complicit in gender ideology’s regressive belief system, legitimizing it. Far from an innocuous act, it serves as an implicit endorsement of gender ideology and all of its radical tenets.”

For those not in the know, the pronoun ritual is a part of the progressive routine of identifying oneself with so-called ‘preferred pronouns’ like ‘they/them’ and ‘xe/xer’ while introducing oneself – alongside other bizarre rituals and phrases like ‘trigger warning’ and ‘check your privilege’ that first emerged from Tumblr and liberal American universities.

The Biden administration’s newest nuclear waste deputy isn’t shy about his deviancy. A Metro Weekly article showcases Brinton’s lifestyle as a handler in the “pup community.” In the piece, Brinton goes into quite astonishingly explicit detail about various techniques involved in his kink, as well as the sexual proclivities of other queer subjects. Click on the link if you’re so inclined, but be warned – it doesn’t make for edifying reading.

 

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By Michelle Malkin

 

A year ago this month [May 2022], a comparison of military recruitment ads from China, Russia and the U.S. went viral on social media. Our foreign competitors wooed their potential enlistees with muscular appeals to national pride and protection of the traditional nuclear family. A U.S. Army promotional campaign, by contrast, featured a pastel-hued cartoon depiction of a female soldier named “Emma” who marched in a gay pride parade with her two mothers and became a soldier to “shatter some stereotypes.”

Wokeness is a terminal cancer in our armed forces, eroding the foundational bones of its honor-bound institutions and ravaging the core values of generations of America’s frontline fighters. Integrity, honor, personal courage, excellence and commitment to truth have been subjugated to the progressive false gods of diversity, equity and inclusion. Who needs outside threats to our troops when the most lethal saboteurs are embedded inside the bowels of our own Pentagon and service academies?

“Diversity,” of course, is exclusively defined by selective skin color and politically correct pronouns. “Equity” is a farce if you are white, male, Christian and patriotic. “Inclusion” is a grand illusion. Nowhere are these toxic realities more clearly illustrated than in the American military bureaucracy’s vindictive witch hunt against our best and brightest soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen and Coasties who have resisted the COVID-19 jab.

“I’m frustrated,” Air Force Academy cadet Nathan Suess told me on Monday in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as he braced for punishment and retaliation during graduation week. The 21-year-old civil engineering major is one of four seniors who objected to the COVID-19 vaccine because of their deeply-held religious beliefs — as well as on irrefutable scientific and legal grounds. Suess quietly filed his religious exemption request last fall as a “devout follower of God,” citing aborted fetal cell lines used to develop the shots; the low mortality rate among young, healthy active-duty personnel; more than 600,000 adverse vaccine reactions reported to the government, including permanent heart damage among young men; and the illegality of mandating experimental vaccines not fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration and undermining informed consent (as determined by courts that ordered the suspension of the military’s anthrax vaccine mandate in 2004).

“I could not dirty my conscience” by obeying an unlawful order undergirded by “deception and dishonesty,” Suess told me.

Suess and his fellow objectors were left in the dark about their fate until last week, when the Academy publicly outed and humiliated the quartet — threatening to force them to reimburse their tax-subsidized tuition (upwards of $200,000) and denying them military commissions. The Air Force Academy, increasingly infiltrated by radical leftists who require critical race theory brainwashing and subsidize pagan, witch and Wiccan worship on campus, is the only one of the military academies imposing such draconian penalties.

 

The self-described “Navy brat” from a family with three generations of veterans believes “critical thinking is imperative for officers.” Joining the Air Force was Suess’ “biggest high school goal.” But he now feels “ostracized” and betrayed by leaders who have “made everything up on the spot” in defense of sham science and unconstitutional orders. “This is tyranny at its finest,” he lamented as he packed his bags this past weekend, but he vows to fight it on behalf of other peers.

“We do not swear an oath to obey our leaders,” Suess declared defiantly. “The Constitution always comes before military mandates.”

Suess is not alone. As a federal judge in Texas ruled in January in halting punishment for 35 Navy special ops members who refused the COVID-19 shots, “There is no military exclusion from our Constitution … There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment.” And just this week, a secretive Navy Administrative Board ruled unanimously that LT. Col. Bill Moseley, a Navy weapons specialist with 22 years of active-duty service, was not guilty of “misconduct” for refusing to obey a direct order to submit to the COVID-19 jab because of his religious objections.

Conveniently, the full ruling is hidden by a convoluted military process that only discloses results when dissenters’ challenges fail. But Moseley’s attorney, R. Davis Younts (who himself served 12 years active-duty in the Air Force and in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps), was able to tell me this week that “it was very clear that the board had legitimate concerns about the lawfulness of the order and whether the vaccine mandate was reasonably necessary to accomplish” the Navy’s mission. “We are supposed to be free-thinking and use our discretion. We are legally bound to challenge unlawful orders.”

Younts, a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force reserves, is now defending more than 50 military clients fighting to protect their faith. He has filed his own religious exemption request from the COVID-19 shots as well. “This is a very personal fight for me,” he revealed, and “it’s not just about the vaccine … It’s a very difficult time in the military today for people of Christian faith who hold to Biblical teachings.”

In a sane and self-respecting sovereign nation, wise, brave, God-fearing, independent-minded warriors like USAFA cadet Nathan Suess, Navy Lt. Col. Bill Moseley and military defense lawyer R. Davis Younts would be celebrated and promoted, not spurned.

But in woke, broke America, our military no longer liberates the oppressed. It oppresses the liberated. And all our enemies laugh mightily at our self-inflicted civilizational wounds.

 

 

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The military touts a "recruit’s market" that should attract fresh blood into its ranks as each branch faces recruiting shortfalls following the coronavirus pandemic. 

"In real estate, you talk about buyer's and seller's markets," Maj. Gen. Edward W. Thomas Jr., commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service, told Fox News Digital. "You know, this is a recruiting market right now. There are good opportunities to serve and good incentives to do so."

The military faced a drop-off in recruitment during the pandemic: Each branch met active component goals, but reserve numbers have fallen short each year. That shortage has now hit the Active component goals for the Army and Navy, with other branches just meeting their goals. 

 

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