Friday, March 07, 2025

Historical Illiteracy

POTUS in the Oval Office to reporters:
"You know, the biggest problem I have with NATO, I really, you know, I mean, I know the guys very well. They're friends of mine. But if the United States was in trouble and we called them, we said, we got a problem, France. We got a problem, a couple of others I won’t mention. Do you think they're going to come and protect us? They're supposed to. I'm not so sure."
You'd think someone would have told him that the only time Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty has been invoked, it was by the US, and France indeed did show up.

Meanwhile, the DEI purge at the Department of Defense seems to have included doing a simple "Ctrl+F" search for "DEI-sounding" keywords of in the filenames of photos to delete because among those scheduled for the memory hole were the Enola Gay and Navy Cross recipient Ensign George Gay.
The database, which was confirmed by U.S. officials and published by AP, includes more than 26,000 images that have been flagged for removal across every military branch. But the eventual total could be much higher.
That was literally Winston Smith's job in 1984, except it's being performed by the Three Stooges.

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