There are West Pointers who are aware of what is happening, as much so, at least, as any of us is and tries to keep up with. But command and staff at West Point, especially command — all of whom are West Pointers — highlight for Cadets and fellow citizens whatever is party line from CIA-USAID, Congress, White House, and especially the Ivies. Very little of military education occurs now at West Point and the other four national service academies. The cynosure of West Point command and staff is the humanities-heavy, ideologically-formatted Ivy League faculty and prestige. That’s who today’s West Point command and staff want to revere them.
To the world, today’s West Point command and staff project sanctimony and omni-competence. They are not at all serious about national defense. In other words, they are weak, jealous, and frightened. As soldiers they are stuck-up, useless, and even dangerous. Not all of them, but increasing in presence, and even as token of admissibility (by race, gender, family, ethnicity, etc. — any latest weird thing other than moral, physical, and intellectual competence and accomplishment).
West Point is the nation’s first engineering school. It is a trade school for soldiers who bear high national responsibility. War-fighting is an engineering enterprise. This is why warriors make the best executives, legislators, and judges.
The American Putin hasn’t shown yet. But he is here, I guarantee it. All this heartache will move off in a very short span of time, as happened in Russia. People themselves sort out the details. The leader just gives them the feeling that they can do it and that they will be OK just by carrying on with what they think best for themselves — swadharma, inner necessity — and each other. And by ensuring homeland defense!
It’s all in the feelings. People say, You can do whatever you dream of doing. Everyone knows that is a lie. What is the truth, and not a lie, is that a man or a woman whose feelings touch God and their neighbors with sweetness and patience makes miracles more wonderful than anyone’s dreams conjure.
You watch a man like Putin — you feel it as you watch him discharge his duties — you see a man whose very feelings run in the palpably right direction, towards expanding the contentment, the serenity of his countrymen and even that of citizens of other countries, if they would just be friendly instead of stuck-up. Each of us should be a little Putin in this regard, wherever we are, whatever we’re doing, whatever our station in life. Spiritual expansion is our fundamental duty as human beings — just as it is Putin’s — during our life together in this breathing world.
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By Artists M and F Graham
At Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India
