{"id":136449,"date":"2024-12-13T05:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136449"},"modified":"2024-12-13T05:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:21:46","slug":"pete-hegseth-decried-out-gay-troops-in-us-military-as-part-of-marxist-agenda-pete-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136449","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth decried out gay troops in US military as part of Marxist agenda | Pete Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Policies allowing out gay people to serve in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">US military<\/a> have been denounced as part of a \u201cMarxist\u201d agenda aimed at prioritising social justice above combat-readiness by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pete-hegseth\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s embattled defence secretary pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The assertion was among many contentious \u201canti-woke\u201d views expressed in Hegseth\u2019s latest book, The War on Warriors, published this year, in which he lambasted a previous policy \u2013 known as don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell (DADT) \u2013 that tolerated gay service members as long as they did not disclose their sexual orientation, while also excoriating its repeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">DADT was introduced as a compromise during Bill Clinton\u2019s presidency in 1993 to allow lesbians and gay men to serve in the military in the face of opposition from senior commanders. The policy overturned a previous blanket ban that had been in place since the second world war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">It was <a href=\"https:\/\/%3Chttps\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/national\/2010\/05\/29\/gates-addresses-troops-on-dont-ask-dont-tell\/725677cd-f0e1-4de6-8622-ea454dfd28cf\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">repealed in 2011 <\/a>during the presidency of Barack Obama following numerous complaints of discrimination resulting from the dishonourable discharges of armed service personnel after their sexuality had come to light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Hegseth \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/03\/pete-hegseth-defense-department-alcohol-use\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">whose nomination has become imperilled<\/a> following allegations of drunkenness, sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement \u2013 has denounced DADT as the start of ideological \u201ctinkering\u201d with the armed forces for social justice ends, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/12\/politics\/pete-hegseth-gay-trans-troops-marxist-agenda\/index.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">CNN reported <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">But he has also voiced regret over its repeal, calling it \u201ca breach in the wire\u201d that opened the path to a wider ideological and cultural change in the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Recalling how he was getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan when the policy was annulled, he wrote: \u201cOur commander briefed the unit, peppered with a few jokes. You know, infantry stuff.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"93f26a3b-3911-44b1-a43d-65cec38ea042\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:7,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Trump\u2019s nominee for secretary of defense should alarm all of us | Moira Donegan&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;93f26a3b-3911-44b1-a43d-65cec38ea042&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/04\/trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-abuse&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cWe mostly laughed it off and moved on. America was at war. Gays and lesbians were already serving in the military. I had seen the enemy with my own eyes. We needed everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">He now says that inclusive and tolerant attitude was a mistake, suggesting it paved the way for admitting transgender people into the military and allowing women to serve in combat roles, from which they were barred until a 2013 reform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cIt started with Clinton under \u2018don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019,\u201d Hegseth told the conservative broadcaster, Ben Shapiro, in an interview this year in which he cited a military recruitment advertisement of a soldier with two lesbian mothers as illustrative of a shift in military culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cAt least when it was an \u2018Army of One\u2019, they were, you know, [a] tough-looking, go get \u2019em army,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cNow you just have the absurdity of \u2018I have two mommies and I\u2019m so proud to show them that I can wear the uniform too.\u2019 So they, it\u2019s just like everything else the Marxists and the leftists have done. At first it was camouflaged nicely and now they\u2019re just open about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Hegseth\u2019s aversion to gay people in the military and women in combat was expressed before Trump nominated him for a cabinet position that would give him decision-making power over both policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Interviewed this week by CNN, Hegseth \u2013 a former army national guard soldier and Fox News host \u2013 declined to say whether he still believed it was a mistake to repeal don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">He also said he supported \u201call women serving in our military\u201d \u2013 despite previously arguing that their presence led to an \u201cerosion in standards\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Hegseth repeatedly took issue with the concept of female combatants in a chapter of his latest book titled \u201cThe (deadly) obsession with women warriors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cI\u2019m going to say something politically incorrect that is perfectly commonsensical observation,\u201d he wrote. \u201cDads push us to take risks. Moms put the training wheels on our bike. We need moms, but not in the military, especially in combat units.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">In another provocative passage, he wrote: \u201cIf you train a group of men to treat women equally on the battlefield then you will be hard pressed to ask them to treat women differently at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Hegseth conflated the issue of women and gay people in the military in comments to Fox News in 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/meidasnews.com\/news\/pete-hegseth-lamented-dont-ask-dont-tell-change-women-in-the-military\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Meidas News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cThrough don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell and women in the military and these standards, they\u2019re going to inevitably start to erode standards because they want that one female special operator, that one female Green Beret, that one female Army Ranger, that one female Navy Seal, so they can put them on a recruiting poster and feel good about themselves \u2013 and [that] has nothing to do with national security,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/12\/pete-hegseth-military-comments\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policies allowing out gay people to serve in the US military have been denounced as part of a \u201cMarxist\u201d agenda aimed at prioritising social justice above combat-readiness by Pete Hegseth, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136449\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}