It’s Time to Cut the Lame Woke Soldier Act

Americans will have to learn to reject the marketing of these military fig leaves and recognize that they are just as susceptible to regime groupthink as any other Washington functionary.

By Ray McCoy
August 25, 2021

The scene from the press room was like something out of a disaster movie. The stream of words coming from the two military men, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fell flat as they stood before the press and reiterated they were in control of the situation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Rest assured, they completely expected and prepared for just this situation.

Milley insisted that now is not the time for recriminations and performance reviews but rather to allow for the contingency plan to be carried out. If it seemed like a performance straight out of Hollywood, it’s because that’s the way their tenures have been so far.

Since Kabul fell on August 15, neither Austin nor Milley appeared publicly for three days to explain how the situation had deteriorated so rapidly or why the United States appeared so obviously ill-prepared to extract its citizens. In fact, neither of the two, nor Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and Vice Chairman John Hyten, had given a press conference during the previous week. Instead, the response to the crisis was given by Pentagon press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby.

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