I’m going to rely heavily on Michael West’s commentary on this morning’s Open Forum, because 1) I was all set to post on this when my computer crashed 2) when I finally got it up and (sort of) running, I saw that he had covered the topic well in the first entries on our weekly ethics free-for-all.
The National Review, still a pit of NeverTrump die-hards, did a good job covering the latest desperation Axis bile, the petty criticism of the Trump War Department for giving the troops steak and lobster dinners. A disgusted veteran on the staff wrote in part,
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There was a whole office episode that covered this in terms explained to a five year old.
I was unaware of the tradition but nonetheless felt it was owed to those going into battle as being similar to a last supper.
And I’m 100% certain the progressive hope here was to craft an image of a cabal of harumpfing generals and admirals enjoying luxury in opulent gilded palaces moving map pieces across a board, pausing only to adjust their monocles and re-tighten their Bismarckian mustaches.
But here’s the extra bit- for the extra cost of giving the soldiers this little bit of extra niceness: the DoD is still forced to be price conscious- these aren’t top tier grade A steaks or lobsters. They were all purchased on a tight budget and then overcooked to meet federal regulations to ensure no part of the meat is underdone. (Meaning these steaks weren’t grade a cooked to medium-rare delicacy)
So spare me the pearl clutching democrats.
I first heard about this issue from the Babylon Bee’s parody of it this morning, headed with an image of a chubby Pete Hegseth wearing a Red Lobster bib while supposedly speaking to the press. I never had such a meal myself during my very brief stint in the Army (ending in a medical discharge), but then I never faced deployment to anyplace more dangerous than Ft. “Lost in the Woods” (Leonard Wood), MO. The soldiers being fed steak and lobster are about to earn those meals with their lives!
Among the things I try to breeze by on my morning updates are the obviously idiotic news items (so-called) and the ill-informed comments, often enough espoused right here, that they generate.
Special meals are somewhat routine in the military. I had, as I recall, about 3 or 4 in my two years in Vietnam. But, geez, I was next door to an ocean, and still, no lobster. I gotta track down that mess sergeant.
So, now, apparently, it is the turn of the left to make hay over meals. BFD.
The right will be (when it suits) right there making hay over the bloated government bureaucracy, or at least until they are told how select parts of government need to be expanded to, for one example, get rid of criminal aliens.
Government based upon solid principles hashed out over the years would work far better to support the self-evident truths enunciated in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Especially, for the people, which gets lip-service and not much more these days.
But that opinion is a minority opinion, a very slim minority opinion. Because, I know, I know, an election is coming up in a mere eight months, so we gotta do all we can to make the other side look bad.