If you were the coach of an SEC school football team and lost two games in humiliating fashion to Division III schools that barely even had enough of a budget to buy beat-up helmets for the players, you might decide that it was time to reevaluate things, particularly if those defeats came on the heels of you being unable to beat any smaller Division I schools for years and having a record of losing to Division III schools.
Well, that’s the situation the military is in, though it doesn’t seem intent on reevaluating things. Instead, after a dismal performance in Iraq and utter defeat in Afghanistan, not to mention a recent record of crashing Navy ships and losing expensive fighter jets to accidents, it’s just doubling down on wokeness.
Fortunately, there’s a man in the Senate that has the strength of character and steel-spine necessary to take on the woke Pentagon and try to exorcise the leftism from it. That would be former college football coach Tommy Tuberville, a GOP Senator from Alabama.
He has made it his mission while in the Swamp to take on wokeness in the Pentagon, no matter what the cost to his political career. Speaking about that to Breitbart News, he said, “I’m not a politician. OK? And I’ve told people, listen, I’m gonna make the decisions that’s best for the people of Alabama and the citizens across this country that love our constitution. I’m gonna fight, and if people don’t want to send me back up here on the next election, fine, vote against me. But while I’m here, I’m gonna speak for the people.”
Continuing, he noted that there are some good people in the military, though the way he said so implied that they’re getting rarer by the day, a sentiment expressed by many conservative veterans. “I am pro-military and we have got some good people in the military. We’ve got some good leaders, we’ve got some good soldiers. We got people from top to bottom that really believe in this country,” he said.
That’s when he got to what’s wrong with the military, which is that it’s full of woke ideology, which is why he’s doing his best to hold up President Biden’s woke military nominees. “But the problem is a lot of our leadership that’s coming out of the White House and from the old Obama administration, they want to change our military to something that it’s never been. They want to involve politics in it. They want to indoctrinate people in socialism and something that we’re not familiar with at all. And so, that’s what we’re fighting with all these 300 nominees,” he said.
Then, ripping into the Pentagon’s priorities, he added that it shot itself in the foot by booting thousands of its best over the vaccine, saying, “They want to talk about readiness. They did away with 8,000 of our best military people for a stupid vaccine mandate, which was unconstitutional.”
Finally, describing why the military exists and what it should be focused on, Sen. Tuberville added, “We’ve had an opportunity with these last 220 days to vet a lot of these people. We’re teaching things in the military that are being taught in a lot of our schools now, which is indoctrination in the social justice agendas, things that shouldn’t be taught. You know, our military is not an equal opportunity employer. Our military is here to protect the citizens and the allies around the world. And if we don’t have the strongest military, we are in trouble, and I’m afraid with the leadership we have from the Biden administration and this Pentagon, a lot of these generals and admirals, they’re pushing things that the American people don’t believe in and that, that is wrong. We cannot be teaching all this DEI, social justice, identity politics. If we do that and continue to add politics to something that should be very strong, coherent, and should be like a football team pulling together and fighting, because–there is no second place in war. We have not won a war since World War Two in this country. People don’t realize that we get into these conflicts but we don’t go in to win. We go in to police and patrol.”
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