Well this is unsurprising:
Go here to read the rest. Armies that are fighting and winning and have confidence in their leaders have high morale. None of this is true for the Army under Obama. Obama leaves to the next President a hollow military.
I wonder what Patton would have thought of an Army “optimism” program? I can guess what he would have said, but such language is not fitting for a family blog. Instapundit puts it well:
You know what helps morale? An Army that fights and wins. You know what doesn’t? A $287 million 6-year “optimism” program. An army overrun with sociology grads, “resiliency directorates,” diversity officers, and the like is not an army that’s focused on fighting and winning.
This comment at Instapundit says it all:
They spent HOW MUCH finding out that blowing smoke doesn’t raise morale?
And you want to tell me that Obama is just peevish…a mutant of mass proportions…hummmm. He is our enemy! Nice job America…sarcasm!!!
Some years ago there was a controversy over police misconduct which had (William Tucker, IIRC) interviewing a criminology professor on the subject of administrative measures to contain the problem (for an article in National Review). The reporter asks him about which police departments had implemented the procedures of which he had provided a precis. The reply, “I dunno. Detroit had a pretty good program”.
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Its a signature of this and that social nexus around the Democratic Party that they act like parasitoid wasps, ruining and consuming any institution they touch. Professional associations are turned into political megaphones, colleges and public agencies are turned into patronage dumps, police departments fill out reports while the wheels fall off western civilization, and now the military is turned into a playpen for Eric Holder wannabees. Maybe a decisive share of the electorate will catch on to the reality that these people are just plain bad.
I suppose it would be jejune to point out that a man whose time in the military and time in institutional leadership approximated that of Madonna Ciccone might not be an optimal candidate for commander-in-chief.
O’Bama and the Circus Clowns who surround him are too dumb to realize what Nathan Bedford Forrest said. “War means fighting. And fighting means killing.”