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Rowan Scarborough reports in the Washington Times,

The Pentagon is ordering the top brass to incorporate climate change into virtually everything they do, from testing weapons to training troops to war planning to joint exercises with allies.

A new directive’s theme: The U.S. Armed Forces must show “resilience” and beat back the threat based on “actionable science.”

It says the military will not be able to maintain effectiveness unless the directive is followed. It orders the establishment of a new layer of bureaucracy — a wide array of “climate change boards, councils and working groups” to infuse climate change into “programs, plans and policies.”

In response to which, Elizabeth Price Foley at Instapundit posts this cartoon by Rick McKee:

They punted

Kurt Schlichter writes in The Federalist,

The revelation that our generals expect Americans solders to allow screaming young boys to be sodomized and not stop it is simply the latest manifestation of the utter moral bankruptcy infecting the senior ranks of the U.S. military.

...Many of these generals are decorated combat veterans who would gleefully charge an enemy machine-gun nest. But that physical courage in the face of the enemy does not translate into moral courage in the face of politicians and social justice warriors. It’s disheartening to see officers with Combat Infantryman badges and silver stars sheepishly nodding along with the lies of the coddled liberal elite.

...Obama cares nothing for the military, and no one expects him to. But it is not too much to expect our generals to care about their organizations, to care about winning wars and protecting their soldiers more than about getting that additional star.

...The military certainly had a tough problem in Afghanistan. Within the military, the fact that many of our putative allies delight in raping kids was an open secret. On one hand, you can’t always expect your allies in Third World knifefights to be Eagle Scouts. On the other hand, we are talking about raping kids.

...the craven generals selected the worst possible option, and failed to give clear guidance one way or the other. Instead of taking on the responsibility that comes with the job, they punted. They chose not to give clear orders — “See it and stop it” or “See it but do nothing” — putting the risk they should bear as commanders onto their subordinates. Now, soldiers have to decide whether to do what is right or do what their generals telegraph they want done but won’t say because they don’t want to be held accountable for it.

This comes in the form of squishy guidance like, “If you see it, report it.” Apparently, a captain who comes across a kid being raped on some forward operating base is to do an about-face, stroll back to the main command post, call up to his battalion, which calls up to the brigade, which calls up to the division, and so on until it gets to the top, at which point the Afghan government gets told that out there in the wild one of their guys is raping kids. Presumably the pederast has finished the act by the time whatever consequences (if any) follow.

So, if the captain acts according to Army values and puts a stop to the child rape, he’s wrong. If he does nothing, and later some congressman or reporter asks the general why his troops aren’t stopping child rapes, the captain is going to be wrong again. If you think the general is going to say, “Oh, the captain as just following my order to allow child rapes occurring in front of him to continue,” you are delusional.

...Obama bears some of the blame because he could fix this with a few select firings and unequivocal guidance that values come first. But no one expects that of him, and there is no excuse why the generals have not done it themselves. They could demand competence. They could demand moral courage. They could resign rather than play along with misguided politics. But they have chosen their stars and positions and perks instead. It’s a disgrace, and our troops and little Afghan kids are paying the price.

Read more here.

THEY KEEP ASKING, “WHAT SHOULD OBAMA DO ABOUT UKRAINE”? WELL, I SAY “NOTHIN’”!

Guest post
By Curt Dale

The media anchors keep wringing their hands and asking, “What should Obama do about Ukraine”? and I vehemently reply, “Nothin’”! I really don’t want him to do anything. Tell me one thing Barry has ever done that he didn’t totally foul up, and if he touches this, he will screw it up even worse than he already has. Please consider what he’s done in 5 years and find one thing that he hasn’t turned into a total catastrophe: rendered our great military essentially ineffective in 5 years though cuts, by firing the good generals and admirals; Obamacare is a disaster; Bailout was a disaster; Insurance bailout a pending disaster; Benghazi absolutely traitorous; turned into an essential terrorist organization; IRS; ignoring Keystone pipeline has cost most of us much of our income; gasoline prices (doubled to tripled); his EPA has created mass destruction though manmade disasters; essentially destroyed “balance of power” in our government; enormously enhanced illegal immigration; shovel ready jobs weren’t; destroyed respect for the Oval Office and the Office of the Presidency; messing up on Syria by doing nothing; fouling up the withdrawal from Iraq, and Iran, making a fool of himself about Guantanamo Bay; working to destroy Israel; destroying the respect of other nations for America; ad infinitum.

Barack Hussein Obama has no sense of history, no sense of the actual world situation, and would have no idea of how to take action. Keep in mind that Sarah Palin told us this Ukraine scenario was highly probably when she was running for Vice President. But he and his lot poo-pooed her. Now, here it is on Obama’s plate, and he has vastly weakened the U. S. Military to the degree that he does not have the ability to respond militarily. Frankly, even if Obama had sufficient military, he doesn’t know how to employ it, and has chosen new generals and admirals who are such sycophants that they probably couldn’t help much either.

With the 20,000 plus Russian troops who have moved into The Crimea already and others standing by to move into the eastern Ukraine at Putin’s whim, Obama is caught with his bare, er, uh, face hanging out, lookin’ and soundin’ dumber than dirt, and letting Lurch Kerry blabber like an idiot about what powerful things the US can do. We generally can’t do squat, folks.

When I was in the Air War College, we studied the Folda Gap Scenario as a possibility of how the USSR could take over Europe. It would have been a monstrous battle, but we’d have had a good chance of winning. Now, Obama has wiped out that advantage through his total disdain for military power and ignorance of what its value is to national security and international leverage. He just threw it all away in a few short months. I don’t know whether to laugh at Obama’s stupidity or to cry at the horrible results of his stupidity.

Obama said, today, that, this move by Putin ‘will be a costly proposition for Russia.” Hey, dummy! Thus far, without firing a shot, 16,000 Russian troops have walked into the Crimea, and took over a major part of a nation. Free, too! Does taking over the assets of this magnificent 10,000 square mile peninsula with a whole coast line of ports, coves and bays on the Black Sea, and operating year round seaport for the Russian Navy, airbases, and a strategic location, all priceless, seem to be a “costly proposition for Russia?” Costly to Russia, Mr. President! Not quite. Actually “priceless proposition for Russia”! Barry, sounded like the incompetent boob he is, today. It is “almost” painful for me to refer to the President of the United States in such terms. I didn’t even say that about LBJ, Carter or Clinton. They had not reached that low level but Obama fully qualifies for the description.

Obama set himself up for this situation over the past 5 years. And he also set up a marvelous chess move for Putin. Putin can move right into the eastern Ukraine, and he probably has Poland quaking in its boots, Romania can be just as easy a conquest, and Turkey is pretty much fair game if Putin wishes. Obama has helped decimate the EU and NATO forces, so what will they do to slow down Putin? Consider also that Putin’s just signed a pact with China that doubles his ante in many ways. Will China now make the same move into Taiwan to reclaim it? I wonder what warning Obama will give to China when it makes its move? Maybe economic sanctions against China? Oh, keep in mind that they just about own us, guys, with the trillions of debt we have. Not much leverage left there, huh?

I and millions of others fought the Cold War successfully to the point Ronald Reagan was able to say, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall”! And, Gorbachev did. Vladamir Putin is poised to put the USSR back together. And all Obama does is talk!

So, what should Obama do? I’ll make two suggestions. First, shut his yap, and quit making it worse! Second, resign?

Colonel Curtis D. Dale, PhD, USAF (Ret)