US Admiral Locklear says global warming is top security risk. If that's so, the US can disband the military-IBD editorial

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3/14/13, "Military Doesn't Need To Worry About Climate Change," IBD editorial

"The commander of America's Pacific forces says he knows what the top security risk is in that region. No, it's not China. Nor is it North Korea. It's climate change. Yes, this is embarrassing. 

It's also an outrage. Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III's job is to assess the military threats in the Pacific and to defend his country from them.

Not to appraise the climate. Not to protect the environment. Not to join the ranks of the superficial who desperately want to demonstrate their depth and earnestness by taking up trendy and politically correct causes.

The duty of the soldier and the sailor is to militarily serve the people of the U.S. and protect its Constitution.

They are warriors, not wilting flowers. It is theirs to attack and defend, not to spread groundless alarms.

Speaking last week after meeting with Harvard and Tufts scholars, Locklear said that global warming "is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen ... that will cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about," the Boston Globe reports....

If climate change is the top security risk in the Pacific region, then the U.S. has no enemies left. Conventional military threats exist no longer. Washington can deplete the armed forces and hire Greenpeace and Sierra Club staffers to fight this new enemy....via Lucianne

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Ed. note: This wouldn't be happening if the US had a two party system. 

 

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