{"id":12989,"date":"2021-03-18T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T02:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12989"},"modified":"2021-03-18T19:30:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T02:30:57","slug":"who-is-our-militarys-enemy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/who-is-our-militarys-enemy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Our Military\u2019s Enemy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new secretary of defense relayed his \u201crevulsion\u201d for Carlson\u2019s questioning the role of women in combat\u2014a position that had been the military\u2019s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pentagon spokesman John Kirby even compared Carlson to the Communist Chinese military:&nbsp;\u201cWhat we absolutely won\u2019t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host, or the Chinese military.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The now-cocky Department of Defense website further boasted,&nbsp;\u201cPress Secretary Smites Fox Host.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what was the biblically \u201csmitten\u201d Carlson\u2019s crime?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He objected to the military\u2019s fixation on race and gender in high-profile appointments\u2014and questioned whether standards were relaxed to permit women in combat units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/03\/17\/who-is-our-militarys-enemy\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.&nbsp; The new secretary of defense relayed his \u201crevulsion\u201d for Carlson\u2019s questioning the role of women in combat\u2014a position that had been the military\u2019s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago. 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