Our country has undergone a radical change in the 21st century. It has not been a change for the better. We have focused more on arguing among ourselves while the “barbarians are at the gates,” so to speak. If we learn no other lesson from the Afghanistan debacle, it is that our military and intelligence agencies need to refocus their priorities. If we fail to do so, situations such as Afghanistan might become much more common.
Mark Milley, a U.S. Army general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke yesterday about the situation in Afghanistan. During this briefing, Milley announced that “There was nothing that I, or anyone else, saw that indicated a collapse of [the Afghan] army and this government in 11 days.” Perhaps if he worried less about “white rage,” he would have seen Afghanistan being overrun by the Taliban in less than two weeks. Perhaps if he worried less about “critical race theory,” he would have been better prepared to do his job.
At a House Armed Services Committee hearing in June, Milley defended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point offering teaching on “understanding whiteness and white rage” and critical race theory. Milley said at the time, “I want to understand white rage, and I’m white.” Milley also affirmed his belief that it was necessary for the military to foster open-mindedness and to be exposed to unconventional ideas.
Milley claimed he supports such academic courses because he claimed he wanted to know the theoretical root of the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jab. 6. Yet, it does not appear Milley had the same devotion to theorize why a group of rioters wanted to seal police officers in a precinct in Seattle and burn it to the ground.
Also, the open-mindedness Milley yearns for does not seem to include any theories that the country is not designed to uphold white dominance in society. Nor does it appear these ideas include anything about a quick, efficient Taliban tactical response in Afghanistan.
Critics have asserted that incorporating such ideologies into the military makes the country vulnerable and weaker. “Critical race theory undermines our military’s effectiveness, destroying trust and taking focus away from the mission,” former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich wrote in an op-ed.
The fact that not one of our military leaders saw the Taliban’s quick victory as a potential outcome is very disturbing. The fact that not one of our intelligence agencies planned for this outcome, the intelligence agencies that were deemed infallible by Democrats during the Trump administration, should lead every American to question the competence and reliability of these agencies. It should lead every American to question our country’s leadership.
Our military shouldn’t be focused on radical theories concocted by agenda-driven academicians. Our military shouldn’t be focused on racial divisions. Our military should be focused on being Americans, successfully completing their missions, and coming home safe.
“No other country is putting its military through this nonsense,” Gingrich said. “They’re focusing on warfighting, which should be the top priority — preparing for and deterring war, hoping it never comes but always being ready to fight.” This is an extremely salient point. As leftist indoctrination infiltrates all aspects of our society, we have undoubtedly lost sight of the priorities and necessities which made us the superpower we are.
