Forgotten Advice

The US military seems to have forgotten the advice given by General Douglas MacArthur in his Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address:

Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men's minds; but serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the Nation's war-guardian, as its lifeguard from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiator in the arena of battle. For a century and a half you have defended, guarded, and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice.

Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government; whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing, indulged in too long, by federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as thorough and complete as they should be. These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution.

Source - https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/douglasmacarthurthayeraward.html

Too many of our generals and admirals have descended into the political arguments of the day, appearing on CNN and other propaganda outlets to embrace the kind of nonsense which is destroying both our nation and our military establishment.

Take the time to read his entire address. It contains other advice which we all seem to have forgotten in our zeal to rid the military of "extremists". And I think you'll agree with me the current crop of cowards running the Pentagon aren't fit to shine his boots.