"The U.S. military is too white and too male"

Women and minorities hardest hit:

The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.

Seventy-seven percent of senior officers in the active-duty military are white, while only 8 percent are black, 5 percent are Hispanic and 16 percent are women, the report by an independent panel said, quoting data from September 2008.

One barrier that keeps women from the highest ranks is their inability to serve in combat units. Promotion and job opportunities have favored those with battlefield leadership credentials.

The report ordered by Congress in 2009 calls for greater diversity in the military’s leadership so it will better reflect the racial, ethnic and gender mix in the armed forces and in American society.

Efforts over the years to develop a more equal opportunity military have increased the number of women and racial and ethnic minorities in the ranks of leadership. But, the report said, “despite undeniable successes ... the armed forces have not yet succeeded in developing a continuing stream of leaders who are as diverse as the nation they serve.”

I've got to believe there's also a dearth of Muslims in the top echelons of the military and something ought to be done about this as well.

Clearly the goal isn't to have a military prepared to engage and kill the enemy and destroy their bases of operation but to have a force whose effectiveness can be gauged by the color of their skin, the make-up of their reproductive organs, their sexual identity and of course, what God it is they worship.

It's hope and change to retch by.

Crossposted at Wizbang.

Comments

[Locutisprime]

News Flash! "Multiculturalism a failure in Europe! France, Germany and the UK admit that the cause of multiculturalism is lost!"

Fast forward on the reel a bit further down the tape of reality? And the unshakable and undeniable reality of egalitarianism also becomes apparent. It too is an abject failure.

Life isn't about any levels of appreciable fairness. Nor are forced perspectives reality, regardless of how warm and fuzzy we make them.

How long before the powers that be in our little world of egalitarian equivocation, determine that combat experience has absolutely no value as a prerequisite for command authority.

What the hell, just make them all generals and be done with it! It's only fair right?

Then let's take those who couldn't make it in medical school? And make them doctors. It's only fair right. And besides, our egalitarian and bean counter mentality mandates certain percentages of performance, regardless of reality. Right?

And forget about all that "judge not by the color of the skin, but by the content of the character routine." What lunatic dreamed that up anyway.

Enough said.

[Patricia]

Absolutely! There are too many white men sacrificing life and limb to keep us safe. I've lost too much sleep over this. Finally women and minorities will have the opportunity to experience the joys of war. Of course they already have, haven't they? Why do I get the awful feeling that this is yet another stab at WHITE MALES?
Note: I gave birth to five white males years ago. Was I politically incorrect? Of course they went on to become productive, caring men who now serve others, but hey, they are WHITE MALES!!! Off with their heads - speaking of, we may not be too far off with that, too....