Ben Domenech drags military leadership for abandoning ‘business of defending America’
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"Fox News Primetime" host Ben Domenech analyzes the admiration of the U.S. military throughout history while respect has depreciated under Biden leadership.
That’s where things went horribly wrong — so wrong that our military has, in a few short years, undone nearly all the respect, esteem, and admiration that it accumulated across a half-century. Let’s be clear, this isn’t just because it lost a war in Afghanistan… It is mostly because our Armed Forces, especially its leadership, decided that as the font of American civic virtue, it ought to weigh in on American civics. This is a shocking turn — upending without public debate, and with even less public notice, the proper relationship between our republic and its military…
The modern military has decided it DOES make policy. It is no longer the instrument. It is the authority. From General Mark Milley ranting about the danger of "White rage" to the Navy abandoning its wartime competencies to pursue social-justice fads to Army recruiting endorsing alternative lifestyles and requiring women to register for the draft to the Air Force Academy superintendent doubling down on social-justice messaging even after a known racial-animus hoax to flag officers trading on unearned moral standing to pronounce on American history to senior officers actively thwarting lawful desires of civilian leadership.
The men who run today’s military are no longer in the business of defending America. That would, of course, require winning a war sometime. Instead, they are in the business of ruling it.