Nicholas Kristof and 'Our Lefty Military'

Nicholas Kristof editorializes in today's NYT that the U.S. military is one of the world's most perfect socialist models, and posits that we, being Americans, should force that leftist model down everyone's throats...

You see, when our armed forces are not firing missiles, they live by an astonishingly liberal ethos — and it works. The military helped lead the way in racial desegregation, and even today it does more to provide equal opportunity to working-class families — especially to blacks — than just about any social program. ...

That’s right: the military ethos can sound pretty lefty.

“It’s the purest application of socialism there is,” Wesley Clark, the retired four-star general and former supreme allied commander of NATO forces in Europe, told me.

OK, Private Kristof, let’s have Corporal Michael(Jabba the Filmmaker) Moore give up 100 pushups before his first box of donuts. Let’s watch the fireworks when a white General Officer dresses down Professor Gates. Oh, and see Amanda Marcotte and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga peel a couple hundred bushels of potatoes in the mess halls whilst Charles (Idiot) Johnson squeezes the sails and licks swabs the decks.



Or just mention to Kristof that the U.S. military is a purely voluntary service that has strict membership requirements that few of his pool of moocher supporters could meet; and that his overarching lefty ideology is already shoved down everyone’s throats with ever-diminishing ways to escape it’s encroachment.

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