WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - It looks like one of the students I may have taught at William College, Christine Wormuth, has taken on the job of weakening the Army and leaving us more vulnerable to our enemies. After losing a war in Afghanistan and encouraging Putin to invade Ukraine it is difficult to imagine what else she and the Biden team can do to weaken the United States as a military power.
Nevertheless, thanks to an observant reader of Williams Liberty, I learned that last week Christine Wormuth, in her role as the Army Secretary, ordered commanders to start involuntary separation proceedings "for those who have refused the vaccine and do not have a pending or approved exemption."
This is, of course, insane. It is a public policy as ripe for ridicule as the Biden administration's plans to issue free crack pipes.
After all, the long-term consequences of taking the vaccine are, as yet, unknown. Moreover, the actual risk to healthy, military-age men and women is negligible. In this context, removing those who refuse to take the vaccine basically purges the Army of its best and brightest as well as it's most courageous.
Disturbingly, Christine communicates with the eerie wide-eye intensity of Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes. Similar to Holmes, Christine seems to have an unprecedented capacity to pretend that reality does not really exist. In her view, her clearly dysfunctional behaviors actually have the opposite impact.
“Army readiness depends on soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars,” she said, according to the Associated Press. “Unvaccinated soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness. We will begin involuntary separation proceedings for Soldiers who refuse the vaccine order and are not pending a final decision on an exemption.”
Christine Wormuth would have matriculated while I was still teaching there between 1986 and 1989. Something of a failure by traditional Williams College standards, she graduated from Williams College with a bachelor's degree in political science before earning her master's in public policy from the University of Maryland. From this modest beginning, it looks to me like she leveraged her gender - but not her looks - to advance far beyond her actual talent in a field where she had absolutely no practical military experience. For those paying attention to the intersectional lottery, she is the first woman to serve in the position for the Army.
After contributing to some of the most frightening and disturbing military disasters of her generation, it will be interesting to see where her wide-eyed affirmative action superpowers take her next.
John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.
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