New Year’s Day attacks by US service members highlight threat, says Bishop Garrison who led DoD investigation

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.

        • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
          12·
          10 months ago

          Did you seriously just tell him to do his own research? I think that’s how we got here in the first place…

        • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
          415·
          10 months ago

          Lmao. You’re the one making claims about me being wrong, so you have to provide arguments for why that is. Saying “i know why you’re wrong, but that’s for you to find out” is lazy debating

          • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
            102·
            10 months ago

            Your premise is willfully devoid of any condition or nuance for deliberate effect. It deserves no respect.

            Extremes of government are authoritarian. Left or right. Extremes of personal ideologies can be violent or even terrorism. Extremism is harm.

            Believing things to be good like environmental regulation, universal health care, civil rights, or even in BLM is not extreme when they seek to undo or prevent objective harm and injustice. Maybe you are deliberately being stupid to make a point, but it’s patently obvious the parent comment pointed out the hypocrisy in labeling what constitutes extreme.

            • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
              64·
              10 months ago

              Believing things to be good like environmental regulation, universal health care, civil rights, or even in BLM is not extreme when they seek to undo or prevent objective harm and injustice.

              I think there might have been a misunderstanding. When I mentioned left-wing extremism, I was referring specifically to ideologies like communism and their historical tendencies toward authoritarianism—not to more moderate left-wing policies like universal health care or civil rights, which I agree aren’t extreme. My point was that extremism, whether left or right, often leads to authoritarian outcomes

              • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
                42·
                10 months ago

                Then you should have expended the time to nuance your position rather than making an appeal to hypocrisy argument and wasting your and everyone else’s time. However, your argumentative follow up responses don’t really do your claim of “misunderstanding” any favors.

            • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
              2·
              10 months ago

              It’s my neverending desire to present fairness to both sides of an argument. Something something broken clocks…