Summary
Bishop Garrison, a former Pentagon official who led a 2021 investigation into military extremism, warns that recent New Year’s Day attacks by military personnel highlight the ongoing threat of radicalization and distress in the armed forces.
Despite a report recommending counter-extremism measures, its policies were never implemented, facing backlash from right-wing figures, including Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.
As Hegseth aims to dismantle counter-extremism programs, Garrison stresses the risks of neglecting the issue, citing cultural and mental health challenges within the military.
Did you seriously just tell him to do his own research? I think that’s how we got here in the first place…
Point taken, generally speaking. However jokes aside I think this kind of thinking is more along the lines of capitalist realism, i.e. the position of the zeitgeist. The “centrist,” the uninformed, and the default view. In that sense, doing your own research can go either way!
As compared to “doing your own research” to find just enough to convince yourself that you’re special and have identified something nobody else has seen before like we see with anti-science people.