The American military has one overriding responsibility: Fight and win wars. That means killing the enemy and destroying his will and ability to resist. Full stop.
Democrats high on the helium of last week’s election wins who think impeaching War Department head Pete Hegseth and turning the U.S. military back to a great big kissy-face rainbow will hopefully pay the price for their stupidity in the next round of elections — and hopefully before the rest of the free world does.
We’ve already seen the catastrophic results of the Joe Biden approach to military readiness. Failure is a given when a military whose job is to kill the enemy instead becomes a taxpayer-funded laboratory for social engineering.
During the past two years, Hegseth has worked to dismantle the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy that had become embedded in the Pentagon. He eliminated DEI offices, ordered merit-based promotions, strengthened physical fitness requirements and demanded that combat personnel meet standards based on the battlefield rather than politics. He ended the ridiculous marketing campaign that championed the idea that a little girl who grew up with two moms was as proud to stand at their wedding as she is to be an American soldier.
Good heavens.
These were not cosmetic changes. They addressed the fundamental question of what makes a military effective. They offered the only solutions to a military that had been administratively feminized by Joe Biden that make any sense to anyone who’s ever been shot at.
But now, along with many other aspects of American Greatness, voters more concerned with gas prices and Trump’s dumb reflecting pool rants have again put the nation’s safety and security at risk. In their tradition of military ineptitude, Blue Wave Democrats think harassing Hegseth will make brownie points with the coalition of Lefty goofballs and gas price bedeviled voters who just side-doored them into office. America’s enemies couldn’t be more pleased.
Combat, after all, is the ultimate equal-opportunity employer. It will kill the stupid and the unprepared without the slightest regard for their pronouns.
Leadership needs to remember that. Military promotions have to be earned through demonstrated competence, judgment, courage and the ability to lead troops successfully. No American soldier should have to wonder whether the officer commanding his unit received that responsibility because of superior qualifications or because the Pentagon needed another gay colonel.
Hegseth’s January 2025 directive explicitly rejected race, sex and ethnicity as substitutes for merit in military assignments and advancement. His subsequent reforms strengthened combat-related fitness requirements and reduced mandatory administrative training. Those changes deserve protection — for our country’s sake.
This is no argument against women or minorities serving in the military — quite the opposite. Every qualified American willing to shoulder the burden of national defense deserves the opportunity to serve, compete and advance under the same legitimate professional standards. Neither discrimination nor favoritism has any place in the ranks.
DEI — or legalized discrimination — is damaging enough to a culture, but it’s deadly to soldiers and America’s ability to project strength and to back it up. Equal opportunity should never be confused with a guarantee of equal outcomes — that mindset promotes incompetence and endangers not just the soldiers but the mission as well.
The temptation to geld the Pentagon will be considerable. Rabid with Trump hate, newly elected Democrats who’ve fought against border security and deportation of criminal illegal immigrants will be ravenous to overturn any semblance of their political and cultural nemesis. Americans must demand this answer of the AOCs, the Adam Hamiltons and the El-Sayeds: Will they make our fighting forces more capable of defeating an enemy?
There are people out there who want to kill us, they’re developing weapons, training troops and preparing for war. They’re not waiting for Washington to decide how many he-shes need to be in each Marine fire team.
Hegseth’s reforms focused on winning wars. That – and nothing else – is the point. ###
