Comments on: Dumbing-Down the U.S. Navy

By: Allen Wilson

Allen Wilson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:10:43 +0000

A few years ago, I was told by a former Navy corpsman who had served in the early 70's that there had been a massive effort to integrate the Navy during the late 60's , and the result was that for all intents and purposes, there was no functioning navy for several years, roughly from 1970-74. The ships were there, the men were there, but it was no effective force. He said that the top brass eventually realised how bad things had gotten and did enough of a reverse on the policy to allow the Navy to become effective again. This time around, there will be no such reverse. It's only a matter of time before a politically correct 'military' receives a major defeat in some silly intervention or provoked war overseas, and the empire will be on the ropes.

By: Clyde Wilson

Clyde Wilson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:14:52 +0000

So what else is new?

By: Polemicscat

Polemicscat — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:38:15 +0000

#5 Jack Bailey, well said.

By: Etienne Gervaise

Etienne Gervaise — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:13:28 +0000

I enlisted in the US Navy way back in 1972 and stayed in for 4 years to get the GI Bill to pay for college. Unqualified officers were the ones who used government employment as their career path because the smart ones moved on to positions in private industry after serving 5 years in uniform. The military is in fact run by experienced NCOs, and the brighter officers take a hands-off approach by letting them motivate the men, and only take the blame when things don't go well.
Unfortunately, many NCOs now have a difficult time motivating the enlisted minorities, and must wheedle, bribe and cajole the men or else be had up on charges of racial insensitivity -- something that started during my enlistment. No wonder the New World Order spends billions on outfits like Blackwater to undertake the truly dirty business of war.
Diversity is probably as much to blame for our Vietnam humiliation as congressional micro-management.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:05:59 +0000

Mr.Baily,
It is a sad day when forces must retreat in the face of overwhelming odds especially when one is of the choleric and fighting temperment like yourself. But when one understands that retreat is a tactical maneuver (an attack in a different direction) then one can see it is not the same as surrender. No one around a Chronicles blog is reluctant to draw swords and fight to the death but it is reckless disregard and stupid to think that a National Republican alliance is anything but a feint to draw us into the same old trap of duopoly we have suffered for the last hundred years.

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:44:49 +0000

#12, Mr. Bailey. I don't think the "cast of a hundred or so" Democrats are "braindamaged," just evil. And it's hard for me to see how things have changed from just three years when a "cast of a hundred or so" Republicans was running everything. The GOP gave us the unconstitutional wars, assaults on the Bill of Rights, inflation, deficits, debt, and depression. Democrats are continuing all that. What to do? First, know what's going on. For one thing, except for Ron Paul, the national Republicans are against our ancient freedoms and rights. How many want to bring all the troops home from the 130 countries they occupy and repeal the obscenely named USA PATRIOT Act? (At the local level, some Republicans may be decent, and some local Democrats may be decent, too; but almost all seem to be corrupted once they go to the Imperial City.) Second, do what you can. For example, forget "reforming" the government schools and instead homeschool your kids, or send them to a private or parochial school (make sure it's not just an expensive clone of the government schools). If you have some money, start such schools or support them. Give people Chronicles subscriptions. I'm not throwing stones at anyone here. Just tossing out some ideas. This is a difficult time.

By: jack bailey

jack bailey — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:19:08 +0000

Mr. Higdon. All our beefs are well known. However the target of our anger right know should be solely the current powerbrokers. This is the urgency that we are faced with.

By: jack bailey

jack bailey — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:59:51 +0000

Mr. Seiler. Things are getting exponentially worse everyday and if you care, you should take those that are causing it heads-on. That means that cast of a hundred or so braindamaged Democrats that are in the key positions right now. If you are not willing to do so, you are part of the problem because themes that you are dwelling on are only giving oxygen to those whose aim is to truly turn this place into a socialist utopia. We should be discussing the demented bastards that are in charge now as we speak and getting in their faces.

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:55:28 +0000

#5, Mr. Bailey:

By the way, I've been a big supporter of Pat since I first heard of him probably in the early 1970s when I was a young conservative, back when there was a real conservative movement (instead of its "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" replacement, the Trotskyite/Neocon movement), and have read most of his books. His arguments helped convince me to switch my position and oppose open immigration.

He's our best columnist writing today. And you always know what, agree or disagree, with Pat you're always getting his authentic opinion, not some party line handed down by Buckley or Lowry.

I even took the humiliating step of joining the Republican Party in 1992 and 1996 to vote for him in the primaries. I also joined the Reform Party in 2000 for the same reason.

But do I have to have *exactly* the same position on things as he has, especially if my life experience has given me a different perspective?

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:46:36 +0000

#5, Mr. Bailey:

Sir, if you were in the military, I'd like to hear of your experiences of seeing, or not seeing, our racial spoils system in action. I recounted my experience.

You wrote, "Perhaps you can start by running for your local school board and you’ll see how well you fare against commited leftists!"

I spent 30 years in the newspaper business, usually writing editorials, and one of my beats was education. It's long been obvious that local school boards are completely irrelevant because the federal government has totally taken over education. This is mainly because of Republican actions such as:

1) Bush II's No Child Left Behind Act centralization.

2) Bush I's Goals 2000 centralization scheme.

3) Reagan breaking his promise to abolish DeEd.

4) Earlier, numerous rulings by the Supreme Court of Earl Warren, another Republican.

5) The imposition of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare by another Republican, Eisenhower. Ike also panicked after Sputnik and advanced federal funding of science education, another centralization effort that ended up dumbing down the schools even more than they already were under local control.

As I've said before, if Republicans didn't exist, Democrats would have to invent them.