{"id":1592198,"date":"2022-08-06T10:01:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1592198"},"modified":"2022-08-06T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:02:09","slug":"drag-queen-show-betrays-the-militarys-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drag-queen-show-betrays-the-militarys-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Drag Queen Show Betrays the Military\u2019s Mission"},"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%2Fdrag-queen-show-betrays-the-militarys-mission%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=1592198&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><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"first-char\">G<\/span>en. Douglas MacArthur, speaking to cadets at <a href=\"http:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Gazetteer\/Places\/America\/United_States\/Army\/USMA\/MacArthur\/1962_speech_to_the_Corps.html\">West Point in 1962<\/a>, said: \u201c[Y]our mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable. It is to win our wars.\u201d MacArthur continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All other public purposes, all other public projects, all other public needs, great or small, will find others for their accomplishment; but you are the ones who are trained to fight. Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sixty years later, the U.S. Army War College\u2019s flagship journal, <em>Parameters<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ssi.armywarcollege.edu\/parameters\/parameters-spring-2022\/\">features<\/a> a section on \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion,\u201d the U.S. Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/06\/22\/navy-training-video-tells-sailors-how-to-use-correct-pronouns-and-create-safe-spaces\/\">uses a video<\/a> to instruct its members to use proper pronouns and create \u201csafe spaces\u201d for all naval personnel, and now the U.S. Air Force reportedly hosted a drag queen show at the Joint Base Langley-Eustis as part of its summer festival on \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion.\u201d It appears that \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u201d has replaced \u201cDuty, Honor, Country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2022\/08\/air-force-hosts-drag-show-at-kid-friendly-diversity-inclusion-festival-on-base\/\"><em>Military News<\/em><\/a>, \u201cJoshua Kelley aka \u2018Harpy Daniels \u2013 The Navy Drag Queen\u2019\u201d performed for adults and children at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Gregory Beaulieu, the commander of the 633rd Air Base Wing, approved the drag queen show and the use of taxpayer resources for the event. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/air-force-includes-drag-show-in-woke-diversity-festival-at-langley\"><em>Daily Wire <\/em>reports<\/a> that the festival was \u201cadvertised as a family-friendly event\u201d that \u201ccelebrat[ed] differences\u201d and was designed to ensure that \u201cevery Airman, Soldier and civilian feels valued.\u201d (Perhaps the spokesperson who said that forgot that the word \u201cAirman\u201d is not \u201cdiverse.\u201d) The drag queen performer reportedly explained, \u201cDoing drag allows me to embrace my feminine side and allows me to bring my diversity and creativity out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One can only imagine what MacArthur, who fought and led American forces heroically in Mexico, France (in World War I \u2014 seven Silver Stars), the southwest Pacific, and Korea, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Caesar-Douglas-MacArthur-1880\/dp\/0316024740\">whose biographer<\/a> William Manchester called the greatest soldier in our nation\u2019s history, would think about drag queen shows, pronoun usage, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. MacArthur <a href=\"http:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Gazetteer\/Places\/America\/United_States\/Army\/USMA\/MacArthur\/1962_speech_to_the_Corps.html\">told<\/a> the cadets 60 years ago that if ever the \u201cLong Gray Line\u201d failed the nation in its hour of need, \u201ca million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edward Gibbon, in his six-volume <em>The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/curiousleftist.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/06\/edward-gibbon-on-luxury-and-decay-in-the-roman-empire\/\">noted<\/a> the \u201cdecay and corruption\u201d of Rome\u2019s armed forces caused by the ruling elite\u2019s introduction of \u201ca slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire.\u201d Gibbon pointed to the collapse of \u201cpublic courage,\u201d the diminished \u201csense of national honour,\u201d and the evaporation of the \u201cmilitary spirit\u201d that had infected Rome. He wrote that a \u201cdegeneracy\u201d had set in among Roman elites that \u201cdebased\u201d the citizenry, \u201cenervated their courage, and depressed their talents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are no \u201csafe spaces\u201d on an aircraft carrier or in a submarine. Drag queens who want to embrace their feminine side are no substitute for the warriors \u201cin olive drab\u201d or \u201cin brown khaki.\u201d And above all, \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u201d is no substitute for \u201cDuty, Honor, Country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. Douglas MacArthur, speaking to cadets at West Point in 1962, said: \u201c[Y]our mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable. It is to win our wars.\u201d MacArthur continued: All other public purposes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1592232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}