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Writes Laurence Vance, "Here are the things that Pete Hegseth should have said about the military. Anything less is just death and destruction as usual with a little more masculinity and a little less wokeness:
The military will no longer fight wars that are not constitutionally declared.
The military will no longer serve as the president’s personal attack force.
The military will no longer police the world.
The military will no longer fight unjust wars.
The military will no longer make widows and orphans.
The military will no longer carry out reckless, belligerent, and meddling foreign policy.
The military will no longer station troops all over the world.
The military will stop helping to create terrorists, insurgents, and militants.
The military will stop going where they have no business going.
The military will no longer invade other countries.
The military will no longer fight unnecessary wars.
The military will no longer pretend to defend our freedoms.
The military will close all of its foreign bases.
The military will no longer engage in offense and call it defense.
The military will finally leave Germany, Italy, and Japan since World War II ended 80 years ago.
The military will no longer bomb countries that are no threat to the United States.
The military will no longer occupy other countries.
The military will no longer support a network of brothels around the world.
The military will no longer kill civilians and call it collateral damage.
The military will no longer fight foreign wars.
The military will no longer maintain golf courses on Okinawa.
The military will no longer fight immoral wars.
The military will no longer defend other countries.
The military will no longer waste U.S. taxpayer dollars.
The military will no longer maim and kill people who are no threat to the United States.
The military will bring all of its soldiers home to American soil.
The military will never let a drop of American blood be shed except in the actual defense of the country.
The military will no longer be a global force for evil.
The military will no longer go abroad seeking monsters to destroy.
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
