Greenwald: What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon?

 

Glenn Greenwald: What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon? Look to the New Domestic War on Terror.  

The overarching ideology of Pentagon officials is larger military budgets and ongoing permanent war posture. Their new war target, explicitly, is domestic "white rage." 

For two hundred forty years, American generals have not exactly been defined by adamant public advocacy for left-wing cultural dogma. Yet there appeared to be a great awakening at the Pentagon on Wednesday when Gen. Mark Milley, the highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified at a House hearing. The Chairman vehemently defended the teaching of critical race theory at West Point and, referencing the January 6 Capitol riot, said, “it is important that we train and we understand ... and I want to understand white rage. And I'm white." 

In response to conservative criticisms that top military officials should not be weighing in on inflammatory and polarizing cultural debates, liberals were ecstatic to have found such an empathetic, racially aware, and humanitarian general sitting atop the U.S. imperial war machine. Overnight, Gen. Milley became a new hero for U.S. liberalism, a noble military leader which — like former FBI Director Robert Mueller before him — no patriotic, decent American would question let alone mock. Some prominent liberal commentators warned that conservatives are now anti-military and even seek to defund the Pentagon.  

Read more ....  

WNU Editor: The contrast between the U.S. and the internal military policies that it is pursuing in comparison to what Russia and China are focusing on right now is night and day. 

Russian and Chinese military doctrine is entirely focused on defending the nation from enemies abroad. If the above testimony from Gen. Milley is any indication, the Pentagon's focus is starting to shift on who they see are enemies within the U.S..  

Update: Here is an easy prediction. Criticisms of General Milley's race critical defense are going to be with him until he retires .... Tucker Carlson doubles down on criticism of Gen. Mark Milley: Star accuses him of 'disgusting racial attack' after Joint Chiefs Chairman defended critical race theory and said he wanted to understand 'white rage' (Daily Mail).

from War News Updates https://ift.tt/3gYWDbx
via IFTTT