Maternity Flight Suits and Other Admonitions
When the Gods of the Copybook Headings return maternity flight suits will not be part of the drama.
By Roger Kimball
March 13, 2021
Just about the first thing Lloyd Austin did after being confirmed as Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense was to issue a service-wide order mandating a one-day “stand down†within sixty days to “address extremism within the nation’s armed forces.†“What extremism?†you might be asking, and you would be right to ask.
No matter what Lloyd Austin or the media tells you, the trouble with the U.S. Armed Forces is not political extremism but the enervating rust of political correctness. As Victor Davis Hanson has shown, the upper echelons of the U.S. military were purged by Barack Obama. If they are politicized today, it is firmly in the direction of the woke ideology of identity politics.
Thus we have the commander-in-chief, Joe Biden, speak about the “intensity of purpose†that will be devoted to “designing body armor that fits women properly, tailoring combat uniforms for women, creating maternity flight suits, updating requirements for their hairstyles.†This was not a joke—or, rather, it was not said in jest.
Perhaps the Biden means to prepare the distaff side for a different sort of Battle of the Bulge. True, he would be modestly more reassuring about the U.S. military if he could remember the name of his defense secretary or the name of the building where he works. “I want to thank the—former general . . . the guy who runs that outfit over there.†Oh, dear.
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