Army’s Apache under assault: PC police call helicopter’s name racist

[CG6468]

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Army's Apache under assault: PC police call helicopter's name racist

By Douglas Ernst -The Washington Times Friday, June 27, 2014

Veterans aren't happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a "greater symbolic injustice" than the NFL's Washington Redskins' name.

"Even if the NFL and Redskins brass come to their senses and rename the team, a greater symbolic injustice would continue to afflict Indians — an injustice perpetuated not by a football club but by our federal government," Simon Waxman of the Boston Review wrote for the Post on Thursday.

He added that the helicopter names were "propaganda" that needed to end, because Native American life expectancy statistics indicate the "violence is ongoing, even if the guns are silent."

Readers at the popular military news gathering website Doctrine Man reacted Friday.

"I suspect that the author is less unhappy that our choppers have Indian names, and more unhappy that there is a U.S. military," wrote Alex Kuhns.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/army-vets-blast-pc-police-for-attacking-apache-chi/#ixzz365k5jEGu

[Solar]

Sorry CG, this is a "Nothing to see here" story, it is an opinion piece on another opinion piece that was a piece of shit that got ignored.
My guess is, this author is trying to get attention, so he glorifies an issue that those in power are ignoring, and for good reason, the minute you put these issues in the spotlight, they take on a life all their own.

Just like the Red Skins issue, the Marxists needed a distraction, so they created a good one.

here's the original article of which this guy is commenting on, it really is nothing.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinions/simon-waxman-tomahawk-missiles-apache-helicopters-just-as-offensive-as-redskins/2014/06/26/16c18738-fc9a-11e3-932c-0a55b81f48ce_story.html?hpid=z3

[DaisyJane]

At one time, I would have thought this was a joke.

Today, nothing surprises me.

DaisyJane