An Ominous Sign

Last week, as hundreds of armed citizens gathered around armed forces recruiting centers around the country to protect them after a terrorist attack, they were betrayed by the high command of Obama's Department of Defense.  The U.S. DOD ordered that the troops being guarded by civilians treat their civilian guards as "security risks" and to call the police to have them removed.

This order gives a stunning insight into the thinking of the flag rank officers Obama has collected around him.  The fact that they are more afraid of legally armed U.S. citizens than Muslim terrorists should serve as a warning call to every American citizen.  The U.S. military high command has been corrupted and co-opted by the Muslims in places of influence in the Obama administration.

This has been a long time coming.  Soon after his election, Obama began purging the officer corps of anyone who would not slavishly obey his destructive policies concerning the military.  At one point, he actually fired a high ranking military commander in the field who was trying to get aid to U.S. forces under fire in Benghazi.  This type of policy decision has been repeated again and again under this administration.  The lives of the troops matter little to them so long as their carefully nurtured dialogue of deception is not disturbed.  And now, the U.S. high command has become a willing instrument in this deception.

In the months following the Tiananmen Square uprising in China, I had the privilege of interviewing a Chinese couple that managed to escape.  One of their greatest surprises and disappointments was that the Chinese People's Army had actually fired upon their own people.  The People's Army was previously held in high esteem by the Chinese People.  They sincerely believed that it would never do harm to them.  They continued to believe that until People's Army forces opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators and literally crushed hundreds of them under the tracks of their tanks.

We Americans have had our own Tiananmen Square warning but have largely ignored it.  After

Hurricane Katrina, troops of Oklahoma's own 45th Brigade went house to house in New Orleans and seized the legally owned weapons of private citizens in the middle of a civil catastrophe when they were needed most.  That lesson should not lost upon the American people. Soldiers will trust their superiors to give them lawful orders and will obey them when issued. Any time the American people are determined to be a "domestic enemy" those orders must be disobeyed.  If the officer corps of the U.S. military does not have a good understanding of the rights of citizens under the constitution and a life or death, career ending commitment to protecting them against "all enemies foreign and domestic" then they are nothing more than the administration's private political enforcement tool .... literally political thugs in uniform.

The U.S. Armed Forces, particularly at the command level, have been so politicized under this administration that it may be too late to restore the institution of the flag officer corps as it currently exists.  Under the next administration, it may be time to start over.  That evolution would begin by firing every politicized flag rank officer who had survived under Obama and replacing them with experienced officers who were purged by him.  That evolution would continue by purging the military academies of the corrosive politically correct influences that have seized control of them under this administration and replacing them with officer instructors who are more concerned with teaching future leaders how to win wars than implementing gay and feminist theory into the military culture.

The leadership of the U.S. Armed Forces have lost their way and are in danger of becoming a threat to the people they serve.  Historically, the U.S. Armed Forces have been apolitical, serving administrations of differing political identity equally.  However, like so much in American culture, Obama has fundamentally transformed that and turned the U.S. Armed Forces into another political branch just like that found in Banana Republics and third world hell holes.  And because of that, the next administration is going to have to let the careers of those flag officers who allowed this to happen on their watch die by the same political sword that they lived and were promoted by in the current administration.