Common Sense: Here Today, Pentagon Tomorrow
From FRC:
LGBT Pride Month officially ended yesterday, but under this president, it’s never-ending. Members of our military know that all too well, as an entire nation woke up this morning to a future force that no one will recognize. Just days before the Fourth of July, very few people are celebrating Obama’s revolution, an eight-year crusade to radically sexualize and undermine the military and with it the broader culture.
The final piece of that puzzle came yesterday, as an uncomfortable Secretary Ash Carter announced that the ban on transgenderism had officially ended — and with it, the era of peak military readiness. Despite strong objections from top Pentagon leaders, the president decided to shelve the military’s real mission in favor of his radical objectives.
And the backlash has been fierce. In the House and Senate, both chairmen of the Armed Services Committee were outraged that the administration didn’t have the decency to consult Congress — or at least give the chambers a heads-up that the decision was imminent. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) was especially angry that a policy with such obvious fallout was rammed through without even a courtesy call to elected leaders.
“I will be [contacting] the chiefs of the services, those men and women in uniform who are the heads of the military, and ask them their views, including the cost of implementing. I’m talking about the fiscal costs, of implementing some of these changes, and we’ll be having hearings. Unlike any other administration that I have been associated with, we received no heads up,” he said. “I happen just to be the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and it’s customary in all the years I’ve been on it to give members, particularly the chairman, a briefing. Something like this will require legislation.”
His House counterpart, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) was equally disgusted. “Our military readiness — and hence, our national security — is dependent on our troops being medically ready and deployable. The administration seems unwilling or unable to assure Congress and the American people that transgender individuals will meet these individual readiness requirements at a time when our Armed Forces are deployed around the world.” In the shadows of two mass casualty terror attacks and 15 years of war, the president should be laser-focused on a strategic battle plan to protect America. Instead, he’s doing the terrorists work for them by providing the single greatest distraction from our military mission ever.
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