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Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius - If you follow me, you know that over the last few days I have been one of several veterans debating reforms in the military’s War Colleges.
Most veterans have had the gumption to debate in a manner where rebuttal is possible, but there is one Army veteran named Brad Duplessis (who is still employed training Soldiers) who moved all of his criticisms of my recent American Greatness article on the subject to the heavily censored platform of “Blue Sky.” He has an X account too, but lacks the moral fortitude to challenge me directly on the free speech platform of X.
Anyway, I was cruising through his collection of rabidly Leftist "Blue Sky” posts, and I came across one that I think perfectly serves as an exemplar of exactly what is wrong with today’s War Colleges.
Check out the screen shot below.
Let me explain how this illustrates so many of our current problems:
1. Michael Hayden is a retired USAF four star general and former Director of the CIA. He retired from the USAF in 2008 and from the CIA in 2009. After retirement, he let the world know that he is an extreme Leftist and completely TDS-possessed Trump hater. In 2017, he spoke officially at the National War College. I REPEAT, in 2017 the National War College featured this incredibly left wing, highly politicized retired general as a speaker to the entire class of military and civilian students, all while Trump was COMMANDER IN CHIEF, for crying out loud. Think about it—a War College featured a speaker who grossly disrespected the chain of command of everyone in the audience. This is a major reason why the War Colleges need reform.
2. Hayden made the point that he believed that the US government under Trump had moved away from “objective truth.” As proof, he cited science, the judiciary, the media and the intelligence community. In reality, science has been highly politicized for decades in areas like COVID masks and ever-changing criteria for evaluating historic global temperatures. The judiciary? Nothing there is “objectively true.” There is a reason why judges submit “opinions” and not “statements of objective truths.” Further, as a practicing lawyer I can safely assure the world that virtually no part of the law is objectively true, and everything is open to interpretation. The intelligence community? There is a reason why intelligence professionals issue “estimates.” Those estimates are often wildly removed from objective truth. (Iraq WMD, anyone?) Finally, he unironically used “the media” and “objective truth” in the same sentence. The fact that an official speaker at the National War College thinks these things are “objectively true,” despite all evidence to the contrary, is another major reason why the War Colleges need reform.
3. Duplessis was a student at the National War College, and he gullibly believed the lies Hayden told him. This is yet another reason why the War Colleges need reform.
4. Duplessis is still teaching company and field grade Army officers. This is yet one more reason why the War Colleges need reform.
I am quite glad that Duplessis was courteous enough to create a Blue Sky post that proved the truth in many of my assertions as to the problems in America’s War Colleges.
Thanks Brad!
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2023927991617941984

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius - I think we need to encourage Democrats to oppose dogs. It would be electoral madness on their part, but I'm pretty sure they can be convinced with two arguments:
1. Banning dogs will be welcoming to our Muslim immigrant community. You're not Islamophobic, are you?
2. When dogs exhale, they release carbon dioxide, which causes climate change. Don't you care about saving the planet?