And suddenly the newspapers and airwaves are abuzz with threats against the Right not to turn the IDF into a “political army,” warnings that it is becoming a “political army,” suggestions of what might happen in a “political army.”
If this confuses you, you aren’t alone. The IDF is no less political than any army, and probably more so than most. Every military force in history, certainly in modern history, has been political. The Continental Army, the Red Army, the Grand Army and the Royal Navy were all political; UN Peacekeepers are just as political.
Aha, but “political” has a special meaning in progressive jargon. Politics is the attempt by conservatives to frustrate or delay implementation of the progressive agenda. If politics would disappear, progressivism would be imposed seamlessly, except where negated by nature, or by human nature. Progressives despise politics because they know that they will get everything they want eventually – such is the nature of “progress” – and they can’t understand why everyone else can’t see it.
This is why I consider myself “retired from politics” even though I retain an active interest in political philosophy: I still want progressivism to be annihilated; I just know that it won’t happen by struggling against individual points in the progressive program.
Progressives keep the military in check by retaining control of all commissions at the colonel level and above, establishing a network of lawyers to prosecute soldiers who do their jobs correctly, empowering an educational staff to train soldiers to be the exact opposite of what they’re supposed to be, and giving logistical, material, financial and every other kind of aid and comfort to the enemy to encourage confrontations for which the military can be blamed. All this is necessary because the military, by the very nature of its existence, is the only institution in society that progressives can never dominate totally at every level. Because their domination is only partial, they will forever feel nervous and concerned that it is slipping.
That’s where their “political army” hysteria comes in: even though the army is political in the normal sense of the word, they have created a fantasy in which a “political army” would be a disaster for us – so they can threaten us with one.
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