{"id":1563270,"date":"2022-07-20T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563270"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T21:04:32","slug":"wannabe-soldier-max-boot-insults-army-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wannabe-soldier-max-boot-insults-army-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Wannabe Soldier Max Boot Insults Army Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwannabe-soldier-max-boot-insults-army-veterans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563270&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">ANALYSIS: Does wearing a fancy top hat indoors to conceal your unsightly bald dome make you dumber?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 July 20, 2022 5:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em> columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2019-man-of-the-year-max-boot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Boot<\/a>\u00a0wears a fancy top hat\u2014indoors and outdoors\u2014to conceal his freakish bald head. It may or may not be making him dumber, given the profoundly stupid tweet he posted while attempting to insult a group of veterans who actually did serve their country in uniform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just imagine how all these right-wingers would have reacted with horror if they had been around when Harry Truman desegregated the military,&#8221; Boot <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxboot\/status\/1549396185064013824?s=21&#038;t=I7XfUpF2Na8BIk1uhwzxsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter, the social networking platform. &#8220;Now that was woke!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boot&#8217;s ridiculous and racially charged comment came in response to a <em>New York Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/18\/vets-like-me-are-fighting-back-so-our-military-doesnt-go-woke\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPOpinionTwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> written by Jason Church, a retired U.S. Army captain. Church argued that our military should focus more on preparing for armed conflict with bad actors around the world and less on embracing the &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8221; ethos of government bureaucrats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Navy is producing instructional videos on gender pronouns while its poorly maintained ships crash at sea,&#8221; wrote Church, citing a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/pride-month-heres-how-the-navy-is-training-sailors-on-proper-gender-pronouns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>. He also suggested\u2014quite reasonably\u2014that <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/air-force-admits-it-changed-norms-on-advancement-through-elite-training-pipeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lowering<\/a> the military&#8217;s physical fitness standards in the name of &#8220;inclusivity&#8221; was not a good thing. Other changes designed to make the military more &#8220;woke,&#8221; Church argued, have &#8220;weakened training, lowered morale,&#8221; and &#8220;diminish[ed] the fighting spirit, cohesiveness, and reputation of America&#8217;s Armed Forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boot, who never served in the military but has written several books about war, had responded with the cerebral heft of a <em>Salon<\/em> commenter, and Church let him know it. &#8220;With respect to\u00a0@MaxBoot, this is beneath you and the <em>Post<\/em>,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">We are right to be worried about politicizing the military and <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VeteransOnDuty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@VeteransOnDuty<\/a><\/span>\u00a0will voice these concerns. Smugly dismissing this as bigotry is cheap and wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Church, who joined the Army in 2011 and received a Purple Heart in Afghanistan, is the chairman of Veterans on Duty, a national membership organization dedicated to &#8220;exposing how the woke revolution in the services works&#8221; and compelling the military to &#8220;get back to basics&#8221; by electing like-minded policymakers.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy C. Hunt, a black Army veteran and member of the Veterans on Duty board, also blasted Boot&#8217;s smug commentary. &#8220;We care about a military that wins,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejeremyhunt\/status\/1549419583433572353?s=21&#038;t=I7XfUpF2Na8BIk1uhwzxsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in response to Boot&#8217;s tweet. &#8220;If you want an example of modern segregation in the military, look no further than the Biden administration&#8217;s racist [diversity, equity, and inclusion] protocols that you defend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boot attempted to defend himself, once again channeling the intellectual rigor of the <em>Salon<\/em> comments section. &#8220;Diversity makes the military stronger,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBoot\/status\/1549423202648072194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Will you criticize Trump as well as Biden?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Church, Hunt, and their fellow Veterans on Duty members fought for democracy by defending their country against foreign enemies. Boot &#8220;fights for democracy&#8221; by writing boring columns in the<em>\u00a0Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, for example, Boot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/07\/17\/biden-mohammed-bin-salman-president-dictator-saudi-arabia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a> Biden&#8217;s meeting with bone-saw dictator Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, whom the president once pledged to make a &#8220;pariah&#8221; until flip-flopping as soon as rising <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/gas-prices-set-fourth-record-high-under-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gas prices<\/a> threatened Democratic prospects in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/max-boot-column-bot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0I Forced a Bot to Read 1,000 Max Boot Columns and Write a Max Boot Column of Its Own<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security ANALYSIS: Does wearing a fancy top hat indoors to conceal your unsightly bald dome make you dumber?  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