Don't ask me to respect US institutions led by gutless CYAers

© 2021 Peter Free

 

12 February 2021

 

 

The following is typical of the United States

 

From Task & Purpose — regarding the US Navy and Pentagon's "gloriously" displayed CYA leadership principle:

 

 

It wasn’t enough for the Navy to fire the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s captain twice for a massive novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak aboard his ship that sickened more than 1,200 crew members and led to one death.

 

Now the Defense Department has taken another stab at blaming Capt. Brett Crozier for failing to enforce social distancing on the Theodore Roosevelt, despite Crozier warning his superiors that it was impossible to practice social distancing on warships, in which sailors work together in confined spaces and sleep in open beds and shared berthing.

 

The Pentagon’s Inspector General’s Office has released a redacted copy of its appraisal into whether the Navy had policies and procedures in place to control outbreaks of contagious diseases aboard ships and submarines prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how well the service followed those measures.

 

While the inspector general’s office faulted some Navy commands for not holding required biennial exercises before the COVID-19 crisis began, the report places most of the blame for the deadly outbreak aboard the Theodore Roosevelt on the ship’s leaders — although it does not mention Crozier by name.

 

Interestingly, the report contains an appendix with the names of all Navy ships that reported at least one case of COVID-19, but all seven pages that list the ships have been entirely redacted.

 

That is a lot of missing context.

 

© 2021 Jeff Schogol, The Pentagon throws Navy Capt. Brett Crozier under the bus one last time, Task & Purpose (09 February 2021)

 

 

"Context" — what's that, and who needs it?

 

To rise to four star rank in the American military — all that is required are years of interminable ass-kissing, eagerly indulged herd thinking — and a bureaucracy-first willingness to abandon one's most alert and competent subordinates to the enemy — however "enemy" is defined.

 

 

The moral? — American institutional leadership mandates dishonorable behavior

 

It is no wonder that the United States is, increasingly, in History's toilet.

 

How comparatively well, for instance, do you think that our current crew of — mostly self-advancing, de facto mindless and herd-stepping — top-dog-dopes would have done in German or Soviet shoes on World War II's eastern front?

 

Be honest.

 

Be real.

 

Inspire.

 

Sadly for us, if you can do all three, you are obviously not cut out to lead in the United States.