The leaders of three branches of the U.S. military slammed Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) over his monthslong blockade of senior military promotions Tuesday, with one accusing the Republican senator of “aiding and abetting communists.”
“For someone who was born in a communist country, I would have never imagined that actually one of our own senators would actually be aiding and abetting communists and other autocratic regimes around the world,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro — a Cuban-born Navy veteran — said Tuesday during an interview on CNN alongside Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Army Secretary Christine Wormuth.
“This is having a real negative impact and will continue to have a real negative impact on our combat readiness,” Del Toro added.
You could ponder it for years and that won’t make it true. There are several different ways that this is reducing the militarys readiness, but ‘spreading communism’ isn’t one of them.
When politicians chooses to use lazy cold war fear mongering when real legitimate reasons exist they only make themselves look bad.
They didn’t say spreading communism though.
They said aiding and abetting communist and autocratic regimes, which is very different.