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Oct. 5, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
04:11
Mark Milley Is Not an Impressive Man
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While Afghanistan falls apart.
So either it's an excuse, it's a way of covering their incompetence, or it is incompetence that they're spending so much time on this social welfare.
What's happening in recruitment?
I don't know if you know the answer, but I have two questions.
One, are they meeting?
I'm worried about it like you are.
Forgive me, here are my two worries.
Numbers, and what will the ratio be male-female?
Well, those are good units because...
Let's just put off the table race and gender for a moment and just ask ourselves, what particular group is dying inordinately in Afghanistan and Iraq on the front lines the last 20 years?
And that happens to be white males from the middle class.
About 75% of the fatalities on average in those two wars came from that group.
And what is the group that General Milley and Chief of Naval Operations Gilday and Secretary of Defense Austin are saying are suspect for insurrectionary activity and they need to be hounded out.
It's that group.
And so when Secretary Austin says, I want a proportionally represented military and I'm going to make sure that the military looks like the United States, you want to say to them, well, what does that entail?
Do you mean the dead are going to look like the United States?
Because they really don't right now.
The dead are overwhelmingly white male from the middle and rural classes.
And yet those are the very, that's a source of recruitment that you have relied on to fight your wars in combat units.
So you're alienating or disparaging or caricaturing a group for cheap political.
Dana, is that group going to continue to volunteer to go over to God-forsaken places like Afghanistan?
And by the way, we're not talking about quotas.
We don't believe that you identify people by race, but these people do, Dennis.
They do.
And yet, if they're going to do that, they're going to be hoisted by their own petard because it's suicidal.
They're alienating the very rubric in their way of thinking, and they do classify people by gender and race.
So what's in it for Mark Milley to be woke?
What's in it for him?
Yes.
I'm not trying to disparage him, Dennis, but he's not an impressive character, and yet he's the iconic leader of the U.S. military.
And yet he leaks confidential conversations from muckraking journalists on the left.
He violates the uniform code of military justice by comparing his commander-in-chief to Hitler.
He calls up a Chinese counterpart in the PLA or he interrupts the chain of command contrary to the law of the advisory purview of the Joint Chief.
So he's done everything wrong.
How did he get there?
And what does he want when he leaves?
I think what he knows is that...
I think when he retires, he's going to follow.
The last few chief staff of the Army or Chairman of Naval Operations are four-star Air Force generals, and even Secretary of Defense.
He's going to go right to Raytheon or Northrop or Lockheed or General Dynamics, and he's going to be very wealthy.
But he knows if he were to criticize wokenness or to be praised for winning Afghanistan at the expense of not being woke, he wouldn't.
I think that can be that reductionist.
Yeah, no, it makes sense.
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