Nazism by another name. I stand by my claims. I rarely feel or see the need to retract or even modify statements I have reasoned my way into. It’s not that I can’t be wrong–I often am, and when I see it I admit it promptly–but in this particular case the IDENTICAL political and social and psychological pathogens are being injected into our military–which is a captive audience–as were injected into the German people by the Nazis.
To be sure, our nation should prove much more resistant to this disease than the Germans did, who were undergoing terrible economic difficulties, had suffered within the easy memory of most a catastrophic defeat in war, after a catastrophic effort, and most of whom were already inclined to embrace to some lesser or greater extent a racism that was at that point perhaps a thousand years or more old.
But that the EFFORT is being made to create violent racism in the middle of the people we are trusting with all the best weapons and training, should concern all sane people. The history of the perverted and politicized military is as old as the history of standing armies. Armies have ALWAYS been used in the service of kings and conquerors. That is why our Founding Fathers did not want a standing military. We did not have one worth mentioning, in my understanding, until after World War 1, and even then it was weak, underfunded, and poorly equipped.