ANALYSIS – Two retired generals and a retired colonel, all three graduates of the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, have signed a statement, nominally representing the long list of West Point graduates known as the ‘Long Gray Line,' accusing the academy of violating its core values.
And also of imposing socialist, anti-American indoctrination.
When you wonder why so many of our military commanders are involved in scandals and accused of moral and ethical lapses and even crimes, look no further than West Point and the other national military academies. (RELATED: As American Patriotism Crashes, So Does Confidence In Military)
In their August 17 missive emailed to a long email list and posted on the website of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates, the senior officers, Lt. Gen. (LTG) Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.), Maj. Gen. (MG) Paul E. Vallely, U.S. Army (Ret.) and Col. Andrew O'Meara, U.S. Army (Ret.), argue that the academy no longer truly enforces the proud institution's Cadet Honor Code.
Despite West Point's motto being “Duty, Honor, Country,” and that motto forming the basis of the Cadet Honor Code, it is now enforced less than half the time.
Rather than resulting in expulsion as in the past, the officers note that “today, the Academy's website makes the casual web disclaimer that over 50% of convicted violators [of the honor code] are excused and allowed to graduate.”
But the rot goes far further and deeper than just letting unethical cadets graduate to form the backbone of the Army's officer corps. These cadets are increasingly being indoctrinated in neo-Marxist socialist ideology “that runs counter to the noble principles of the Constitution.”
They add that: “The corruption of cadet instruction with socialist doctrine is further demonstrated by a pronounced bias in selecting guest speakers, who have been almost exclusively liberal.” (RELATED: SEAL Who Helped Kill Bin Laden Joins Navy Critics Over Drag Queen ‘Recruiter')
[I would argue they are leftist not liberal]
“We could not identify any conservative speakers in recent years,” they noted. The officers continue:
Specifically, they argue, the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) at the Academy, or ideas derived from that theory, “severs the ties of every cadet to the defense of the Constitution, thereby nullifying the oath cadets have sworn to uphold.”
They explain that: “Critical Race Theory now replaces Duty, Honor, and Country” at West Point.
And CRT is a cancer.
Critical Race Theory considers the founders evil, the Constitution illegitimate, and the Republic systemically racist. It abolishes the Declaration of Independence that declares all men are created equal. It brands the population as racist, privileged, and unfit to enjoy citizenship rights.
The writers add: “Officers and enlisted troops must sit through leftist indoctrination sessions that portray America as an inherently racist nation, white troops as genetically bigoted, and minority troops as hopeless, lifelong victims.”
And the authors specifically single out Joe Biden and his team of leftists for accelerating this indoctrination and subversion at the academy and throughout our military:
The Biden Administration seeks to divorce military service from the defense of the Constitution by replacing allegiance to the Constitution with Critical Race Theory. This prepares the military for its role in support of an overthrow of the government and the Constitutional order. By forcing the military to undergo liberal socialist indoctrination, they sever the linkage between US military service and support for the Constitution.
To these senior retired officers, the goal is nothing less than the overthrow of our constitutional system from within.
Using the manufactured threat of ‘white extremism' as the excuse, the left is forcing Critical Race Theory indoctrination on our military to prevent any internal military opposition to the increasingly anti-constitutional actions of this and other far-left administrations.
Ultimately, they note: “The cumulative impact of these changes has so altered the Military Academy that USMA betrays the purpose for which it was founded in 1802 – defense of our Constitution and maintenance of individual freedom.”
And I will add – If we don't remove this rot very quickly, our Republic is truly doomed.
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Paul, I couldn’t agree more! I’m a 1974 graduate of the Air Force Academy, and I’m literally ashamed of the leadership there now. I still wear my class ring as a reminder of “what was” despite what “is” today. So sad!
As a cadet at USAFA (Class of ‘76), we were encouraged to attend Honor Hearings, the trials of cadets by cadets for violating the Code. I watched as two cadets were expelled after Christmas leave in NYC: one had handed his DL to another, the second being underage, so they could enter a bar together. 20 yrs later I read of 3-4 black football players at USMA forgiven a violation because they were jocks or black or both. It augured a terrible and dishonorable future.
My classmates all are retired. Many quit when Obama ran out all the warfighters. Few of my classmates wanted their kids to attend an Academy.
Why anyone still wants to attend an Academy or join a woke military that has lost all its wars for 70 years, but still has officers sending kids on patrol to kill and die when that officer chain of command KNOWS we will not try to win… is beyond me.
No one should join this military. And everyone in it has taken an oath to defend the Constitution this administration is attacking. The military is the 2nd-to-last line of defense of our Constitution. So far they have chosen to support those attacking it over defending it.
I think you guys but I also knwo this has been going on for a while.
END Wokeness NOW for all academies
The generals running West Point now are being offered a ton of money to destroy their own military and nation! Maybe the generals bitching now shouldn’t have taught that corruption pays? Once you start down the criminal path it becomes a slippery slope and the ones behind you will have even more contempt for we the people!!!