If it weren't for bloggers and rap music..

ARMY BANS BLOGGERS: that'll solve things.

Too many failed missions?

"It's the bloggers. If it weren't for them we'd have won this thing years ago."

Why has nobody solved the roadside bomb menace?

"It's the fucking rap music. If our scientists weren't spending all their time shaking their asses while playing with their dicks we'd have eliminated this plague months ago."

And the online porn?

"Jesus, I can't tell you how many firefights we've lost because these stupid privates were jacking off instead of killing people."

What can we expect from a group that spends far too much time running white gloves over door jams in order to find dirt so some grunt "will pay for this," or getting on hands and knees in bathrooms in order to find a single spec of dirt? Performing these necessary tasks while clad in helmet and tank commander goggles in case CNN drops by with the TV cameras.

As a former enlisted man and part time Army Brat, I can attest to the overall cluelessness of military officers who haven't availed themselves of combat lately, or have been put on base either by job description or by the fact that they were incompetent in battle

"Like Rommel didn't retreat? Didn't the great Ghengis Khan fall back once in a while? What was I supposed to do? The the fucking towel heads had fifty camels to my zero."

Once removed from their fields of training, which especially include killing people and breaking things, they become the proverbial April Fools wandering around bases doing bullshit inspections, reporting guys who don't salute right, supervising shit like motor pools and garbage dumps, or just plain sitting in offices thanking God they ain't getting shot at. These guys were assholes as far back as WWI (actually as far back as the Peloponnesian Wars: "Wadda ya mean you can't kill babies and rape women? They're Spartans ain't they? Fuck 'em....an' stop reading that fucking fag, Plato.") and continuing through this latest blogger banning brainstorm.

Why? Main reason is that the entire officer class is always one and two generations behind their lower level men. They are intolerant of anything "new fangled," which now must include rap music, blogging, break dancing and shit like that. They will do whatever it takes to stamp out these unfamiliar "evils." My old great uncle was WWII (dead a long time now) and he told story after entertaining story of the moron brass (he never once spoke of his 82nd Airborne combat) that went around issuing fiats which included banning all jazz and swing music whenever they could ("Goddam it, why can't they Charleston like we did?). Korea vets will tell you of the efforts to censor movies and books, going so far as to "put on report" guys caught with offending books in their possession. Of course both the Koreans and Japs had just got freedom of speech so all were available off bases. The Vietnam guys will tell you of similar bullshit compounded by a total inability to relate to the "men" under them.

"What the fuck are you smoking? That ain't no Cuban cigar, soldier."

So now, just when it seemed that all the flaws had been corrected, the pants of base bound staff officers are down, revealing the assholes beneath in all their ineptitude. Adult men in a combat zone not combatting will do that.

This latest back room abortion against blogging is typical of this class.