Posted by
Michael Goodell on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:06:26 PM
During yesterday’s Memorial Service for the thirteen soldiers murdered by a homegrown, US Government Issue Islamist terrorist, Army Chief of Staff George Casey gave further proof of why he is President Barack Obama’s idea of the perfect General. Casey had previously displayed his skills as a linguistic contortionist by repeatedly and publicly downplaying Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s Muslim faith. “We are a diverse army,” Casey crooned. “This terrible event would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity became a casualty.”
Actually, this terrible event became an even greater tragedy when the Army leadership’s sense of justice became a casualty of diversity. In today’s pluralistic America, there is no harm in having a military whose makeup reflects the diversity of the nation it exists to defend. Yet there are limits to how representative the military should strive to be.
There are Americans who wish to sublimate their nation’s interests to those of the United Nations, who long for the day when the concept of American Exceptionalism is relegated to the “ash heap of history.” Yet it would be a disservice to the nation for the armed services to include a representative percentage of them in their ranks. Having one of those Americans as their Commander in Chief is more than sufficient.
During his Ft. Hood address, Gen. Casey referred to the thirteen who “laid down their lives for their country.” This was an outrage. It was an insult to the victims; it was tantamount to dancing on their graves. They didn’t “lay down their lives.” They were murdered. They were shot in the back by an outspokenly anti-American officer. Worse, they were stabbed in the back by an officer class who chose to ignore Hasan’s progressively more radical behavior because they didn’t want to tarnish their self-image of a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more Muslim-friendly establishment.
Perhaps it is time for the Armed Forces to place diversity on the back burner. Perhaps it is time for the top brass to place a higher emphasis on the security of the nation, and the safety of their employees, than on winning gold stars from diversity counselors.
Perhaps it is time to take a good, long look at the motives behind Muslims’ enlistment. If a recruit identifies more strongly with his coreligionists than he does his country or his service, then he should be regarded as unfit to serve. There is something repellent, insidious, and inherently evil about a religion whose followers, as they grow more “devout,” become more likely to commit wanton, indiscriminate murder.