Pro Pace

Perhaps because of his weepy episode over his immigrant forebears a couple of months ago, I may have been less supportive than I should have been of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace’s recent comments on homosexuality. The fact is, Gen. Pace has unambiguously spoken a cardinal Christian and traditionalist truth that is strictly forbidden in liberal society, at least among the elites, that homosexual acts are wrong, and he has also taken another view identical to my own, that society should do nothing that suggests approval of homosexuality. He deserves praise for saying these things that were once universally acknowledged but that virtually no one in today’s mainstream America ever says.

Unfortunately, based on so many previous incidents when people have fired conservative or anti-liberal truths from the hip, we must expect that Pace, too, will not be prepared to defend what he has said, and that under pressure he will fold, apologize, and make some extravagant gesture of surrender, just as Pope (“We love Muslims as the adorers of the one God”) Benedict and Lawrence (“I’ll give the feminists $50 million for diversity programs if they let me keep my job”) Summers have done before him. The best result would be that Pace sticks to his guns (i.e., admitting that his private views about homosexuality did not belong in that interview while declining to apologize for them) and keeps his job. The second best result would be that he sticks to his guns and is fired. The worst result would be that he apologizes and turns into another Ratzinger/Summers type.

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Justin T. writes:

The attack on General Pace by the left is another barrage in what has been a never-ceasing stream of attacks on the military for the past decade, and which has grown with an ever greater intensity since the attacks of September 11. These are nothing less than well organized and calculated maneuvers in a broad campaign to keep liberalizing and breaking down the military. With every new bit of evidence that the left can collect regarding the military’s “intolerance,” they can wreak havoc by advocating further Congressionally-mandated social engineering programs and mandatory “sensitivity training” sessions for military personnel.

As a result of recent heavily publicized cases of sexual harassment within the armed forces, all military personnel are now required by Congress to take part in sexual harassment training every six months. Training regarding the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is now an annual requirement for all personnel. And if the left has its way, it will only get worse. Already The New York Times, in collaboration with the Southern Poverty Law Center, has attempted to provoke an internal witch-hunt in light of the supposed “growing” presence of “white supremacists” in the military, while completely ignoring radical Islamic infiltration of the chaplain-corps. Due to pressure from anti-American groups posing as “human rights organizations,” schools training foreign military personnel, such as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (once known as the School of the Americas), now dedicates a significant amount of time away from actual military training and instead focuses on human rights and humanitarian training.

I could go on and on, but I don’t think most people are aware of the extent to which this kind of lobbying has affected our armed forces.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 15, 2007 12:11 AM | Send