On the subject of thickheadedness

From a guy who should NEVER be an opinion maker on military matters and foreign policy.

Sully trying to explain away his asinine statement yesterday:

My point is not that bringing relief to stricken people is somehow less worthy than fighting wars. My point is that the military is primarily about fighting and winning wars - not disaster relief.

Has Sully never heard of the National Guard? As in, "in the wake of the flooding the Governor has called out the national guard" ... or, "following the widespread damage of the Hurricane, the State has called out the National Guard."

...Guess not.

Oh, and I suppose he is just saying that calling it "the Department of Defense" is some sort of Orwellian name. I imagine after the fall of the Soviet Union he forgot all about DETERRENCE which was the underlying American Military policy from 1946 to 1991?

Sully, we spent trillions on the DOD over 60 years and Presidencies and Congresses representing both parties, more to PREVENT or DETER war as to fight it...even more so. It is only in the Age of the Chimperor that somehow this old maxim has been somehow surplanted.

What a dope. He'd have been a great German between 1933 and 1939 until they slapped a pink triangle on his chest and carted him off to Buchenwald.

Once again, we take Eisenhower over Sullivan:

"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

Actual, veteran, and sailor (like Whitsitt) Jo Fish has more on the banality in his inimitable fashion:

And yes, warfighting is certainly the mission of the military, but I'm guessing, quite correctly that the P-Town Pinhead has never read this:

The Army National Guard's state mission is perhaps the most visible and well known. Nearly everyone has seen or heard of Guard units responding to battle fires or helping communities deal with floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms or other emergency situations. In times of civil unrest, the citizens of a state can rest assured that the Guard will be ready to respond, if needed.

Lieutenant Commander Whitsitt is a SAILOR not a SOLDIER. There's a difference, but for someone as totally ignorant as Sullivan, it's an unfathomable distinction he can't be bothered to actually understand, like 99% of the other drivel he writes.

Oh, and hey you, Viscount of Virus, the little purple ribbon up there in the upper right corner...earned it for spotting and then directing a US Navy ship over to rescue 62 men, women and children on a sinking, overcrowded boat who had fled from the Communists in Vietnam. I guess that's just something some warriors do, when they're not busy being your servants.

In summary...*

Andrew Sullivan thinks the military should be doing this...


than this...


I'll take the later every moment, of every hour, of every day.



*Maybe a little unfair...maybe.