“Conservatives in Congress have no choice but to stand and fight against a politicized Pentagon before we look back with nostalgia on the days when the American people trusted its military.”
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) authored an op-ed in Fox News reflecting on the need to prevent woke politics from taking hold in the U.S. military. Senator Tuberville discusses the importance of the military as the most respected institution in American life, and how that trust is now endangered by the Biden administration.
Excerpts from the op-ed can be found below, which can be read in its entirety on Fox News.
The Left Is Attacking Me But They Are The Ones Jeopardizing Our Military
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville
Fox News
July 14, 2023
“For more than 50 years the Gallup poll has asked people about their views of our nation’s institutions. This past week, Gallup released this year’s results, and they are deeply disturbing…”
“I believe they are also a scathing indictment of the strong leftward lurch in this country over the last 50 years. According to Gallup, the only institutions widely respected both before and after the last 50 years are small businesses and the military…”
“The most political Pentagon in our history is also the least successful in our history. That is not a coincidence.”
“The hits keep coming. Since March the Pentagon has been spending our tax dollars for travel and extra paid time off forservicemembers and their kids to get abortions—something Congress neither authorized nor appropriated.”
“Politicizing the military would be a tragedy in any country. But it is especially tragic because the American military is the last nonpolitical institution in our public life, the most effective military ever known, and the one force above all that has deterred large-scale war since 1945. As William F. Buckley famously put it, the Nobel Peace Prize should go to the U.S. military every year. With the war in Ukraine, we already see failures of deterrence, with tragic results.”
“With so much at stake, and with so much ground already lost, conservatives in Congress have no choice but to stand and fight against a politicized Pentagon before we look back with nostalgia on the days when the American people trusted its military.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans’ Affairs, and HELP Committees.
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