On the nature of change
Change takes time, including national disarmament and other such things
So does the recovery, if we choose.
Top generals: Obama is
'purging the military'
Describe
president's actions as 'emasculating,' ranks now lack 'will to win'
I figure it is one thing to disarm, but it is another
thing to not defend our country adequately. And after all, it is our flesh and
blood that does the deed.
WASHINGTON – Retired Army Maj.
Gen. Patrick Brady, recipient of the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the
Medal of Honor, as well as other top retired officers, say President 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 (World Net Daily), I think.
“They are purging everyone, and
if you want to keep your job, just keep your mouth shut,” one 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.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G.
“Jerry” Boykin, who was with Delta Force and later Deputy Under Secretary 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.”
Boykin points out that the
military adheres to the constitutional requirement of a civilian leadership
over the military. As a consequence, officers are not allowed to criticize
their civilian leadership, as occurred when Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal was
relieved in 2010 of his command of the International Security Assistance Force
and commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan.
He was relieved due to what has
been described as unflattering remarks made about Vice President Joe Biden and
other administration officials in a Rolling Stone magazine article. He was
recalled to Washington where Obama accepted his resignation as commander in
Afghanistan.
Boykin says that because of the
fundamental civilian leadership over the military, McCrystal was “appropriately
forced to retire.”
Some officers were involved in
adulterous affairs and those situations, Boykin said, also were grounds for
dismissal.
Boykin specifically said that
because of the civilian-military relationship, he did not see any prospect for
a “coup” coming from the military ranks.
“People I’ve spoken to would like
to see the military ‘fulfill their constitutional duty and take out the
president,’” Boykin said. “Our Constitution puts a civilian in charge of the
military and as a result a coup would not be constitutional. You’re not going
to see a coup in the military.”
Nevertheless, Boykin said the
future of the military is becoming more and more of concern, since colonels who
would be generals also are 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 therefore have decided to leave, having been given the signal that
there is no future in the military for them.
Boykin referred to recent reports
that Obama has purged some 197 officers in the past five years.
These reports suggest these
officers were suspected of disloyalty or disagreed with the Obama
administration on policy or force-structure issues. As Boykin pointed out, a
number of them have been relieved of duty for no given reason.
“Morale is at an unprecedented
low,” Boykin said, part of which is due to sequestration.
Sequestration has seriously cut
back operational readiness for the military to the point where Boykin said that
often they have no ammunition and are unable to conduct training because of the
planned cuts.
“These officers want to train for
war but are not be allowed to” because of the preoccupation not only with sequestration,
but what Boykin said were other concerns surfacing in the military under Obama
as commander-in-chief.
He referred specifically to the
recent repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which now allows openly homosexual
personnel in the military. In addition, he said the integration of women into
the infantry “will reduce readiness of units.” He also was critical of the
rules of engagement which he says favor “political correctness over our ability
to fight to win.”
“The last time we won an all-out
war was in 1944,” Boykin said. “Now, we don’t have the will to win.”
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,” said, “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,” he said.
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.”
Brady made similar references in a recent article he wrote for WND in which he
said “just when you thought the leadership of this government could not get any
worse, it does. Never in history has an administration spawned another scandal
to cover the current one.”
The reference was to the recent
firing of a number of generals to mask “Obama’s serial scandals, all prefaced
by lies – Fast and Furious, Benghazi, NSA, IRS” among others.
WND reported that three of the nine firings
by Obama this year alone were linked to the controversy surrounding the Sep.
11, 2012, terrorist attack on the CIA special mission in Benghazi, Libya.
In one case, U.S. Army Gen.
Carter Ham, who commanded U.S. African Command when the consulate was attacked
and four Americans were killed, was highly critical of the decision by the
State Department not to send in reinforcements.
Obama has insisted there were no
reinforcements available that night.
But Ham contends reinforcements
could have been sent in time, and he said he never was given a stand-down
order. However, others contend that he was given the order but defied it. He
ultimately was relieved of his command and retired.
Now, new information in the
Washington Times reveals there were Delta Force personnel in Tripoli at the
time of the attack and two members volunteered to be dispatched to Benghazi to
assist in protecting the Benghazi compound, contrary to stand-down orders from
the State Department.
Another flag officer involved in
the Benghazi matter – which remains under congressional investigation – was
Rear Adm. Charles Gaouette. He commanded the Carrier Strike Group.
He contends aircraft could have
been sent to Libya in time to help the Americans under fire. He later was
removed from his post for alleged profanity and making “racially insensitive
comments.”
Army Major Gen. Ralph Baker was
the commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa at Camp
Lemonier in Djibouti, Africa. Baker contended that attack helicopters
could have reached the consulate in time on the night of the attack.
“To understand the insufferable
assaults on our military and veterans, who should be exempt from political
squabbles but are often at the forefront of Obama threats, we need to understand
the psyche of the elite in this country led by Obama,” Brady said.
“It is no accident that the
president used the Obama sequester and shutdown to punish the military family,”
he said. “It is part of his DNA. In fact it is in the psyche of the entire
liberal/progressive establishment – the elite. President Clinton outed himself
and this ilk when he declared his loathing of the military. Who could believe
progressives/liberals care about veterans and military?”
Brady said that some people who
fear for the future of the United States believe it needs to be “re-moralized.”
“We cannot survive without
increasing patriotism, a youth schooled in the Constitution,” Brady said. “If
the uncommon common American is to prevail against the elite, we need to return
to the truths of our Constitution.
“We need to realize that this
recent assault on the military and veterans is no accident,” Brady added. “It
is purposeful. The elite loathe our military, the one sure guarantor of our
freedom. These elite – not a shutdown or default – and their assault on the
Constitution and our military are the real threat to our future.”
Army Major Gen. Paul E. Vallely
similarly has been very vocal in his opposition to the Obama administration.
Vallely said the White House
won’t investigate its own officials but finds it easy to fire military
commanders “who have given their lives for their country.”
“Obama will not purge a civilian
or political appointee because they have bought into Obama’s ideology,” Vallely
said. “The White House protects their own. That’s why they stalled on the
investigation into Fast and Furious, Benghazi and Obamacare. He’s 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.”
Duty personnel seem to back up
this concern, suggesting that the firings are meant to send a message to “young
officers down through the ranks” not to criticize the president or White House
politics.
