Abandoned To Self-Destruction – Take 1

RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

Pomona College is abandoned to self-destruction.

Columbia University is abandoned to self-destruction.

The University of Redlands is abandoned to self-destruction.

The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is abandoned to self-destruction.

The Episcopal Church is abandoned to self-destruction.

The United Church of Christ is abandoned to self-destruction.

The Democratic Party is abandoned to self-destruction.

The Republican Party is abandoned to self-destruction.

The US Central Intelligence Agency is abandoned to self-destruction.

The US National Institutes of Health is abandoned to self-destruction.

New York, NY is abandoned to self-destruction.

Wickenburg, AZ is abandoned to self-destruction.

Hemet, CA is abandoned to self-destruction.

A post titled Abandoned To Self-Destruction – Take 2 and dated 17 December 2019 is here.

Update 1: Scott Johnson at Power Line links two videos of Senator Tom Cotton discussing USA foreign policy. These are instructive, depressingly so. I commented as follows:

I have attended, carefully, both videos mentioned here. Senator Cotton is a good man, a fine man. His intellect, heart and bona fides are unimpeachable. He walks point for the best intentions and thinking our nation’s official leader cadre can produce at this moment in time.

His grasp of American strategic goal, strategy and tactics so lags the need as to arouse disconsolation.

This is not a personal failure of Senator Cotton’s. It is a corporate failure of America’s leader cadre. And behind them it is a failure of America’s parents (in particular, mothers, but also fathers), schools, churches and synagogues to foster spiritual, cultural and moral infrastructure that builds and protects our mother country.

Related: PL has two mentions in Tom’s Wikipedia bio. And he’s a knuckle-dragger. The Times letter may have caused his move from line to staff and then out. Something got him out early after a fast rise in the line, consignment to staff and a short time in reserves. I’d say the Times letter signaled political aspirations and counter-signaled mil career, another reason for an early out for a rising OBC line officer.

PL featured the Times letter, as I recall. It would be a rare serving officer, especially a junior, who would address the Times without command prior-approval and expect a mil career afterwards. Maybe the Harvard Man Syndrome punched through to dominance for that incident. The military is not a democracy.