UPDATED: The New Hope and Change: Our Lefty Military?
Backwards ran the rhetoric: Nicholas Kristoff extolls the virtues of “Our Lefty Military” and puts it out as a model to imitate by society at large. Hmm. Why does that sound familiar?
Snark aside, I think Kristoff is missing the forest for the trees when he refers to the U.S. military as a “model of compassion”. One of the reasons why employment benefits in the military are far more generous than those offered in the private sector is that the Pentagon doesn’t have to make a profit to stay “in business”, as it were. But if people like Kristoff are starting to look to the military for political direction, the elite Left must be experiencing more uncertainty than anyone could have imagined. And really, who can blame them?
Next thing you know, Kristoff et al. will call for a reinstatement of the draft, all in the spirit of fomenting the adoption of a “model of compassion”. Heck, Kristoff even – ever so subtly – gives the ROTC program a compliment in that piece, so you really can’t rule anything out.
UPDATE (June 23): Looks like Kristoff is not the only member of the elite Left who is now embracing what he and his confreres told us for years to reject. Is this what happens when your ideology hits a dead end at every turn?
