(Breitbart) Former U.S. Secretary of State and Army veteran Mike Pompeo launched a campaign dedicated to combating the “radical left ideology” of “wokeism” in the military “before it’s too late,” after warning it is endangering Americans and puts the armed forces “at risk from assaults within.”
Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, former Secretary of State, CIA director, and GOP lawmaker Pompeo announced his effort dubbed “Troops Speak Out,” in a clip that has since garnered tens of thousands of views.
“We can’t let wokeism take over our military,” he wrote. “It’s time to fight back.”
We can’t let wokeism take over our military.
It’s time to fight back.https://t.co/valkc8JNp9 pic.twitter.com/jO1hUqWCwq
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) September 28, 2022
In the clip, Pompeo discusses his first assignment as a platoon leader in a tank platoon after being accepted to the United States Military Academy, calling fellow service members “some of America’s finest.”
“These were people who understood what America was truly about,” he said.
In contrast, Pompeo stated, today’s military is “under assault from the radical left,” whose “focus on the wrong priorities” will make Americans “a lot less safe.”
“We’ll use the right pronouns, but what we won’t have is the capacity to keep our country safe,” he said, adding that “no Russian general, no Iranian leader, [and] no Chinese Communist Party Admiral” spends time considering “gender or woke ideology or climate change.”
Calling to “walk away from this radical left ideology,” Pompeo, a West Point graduate, concluded “we cannot let it penetrate our military.”
Mike Pompeo attends the 48th edition of Economic Forum of Cernobbio on September 02, 2022 in Cernobbio, Italy. (Photo by Pier Marco Tacca/Getty)
The fresh campaign is a project of Pompeo’s nonprofit advocacy group CAVFUND (Champion American Values), which aims to promote conservative policies and solutions, according to its website.
In a letter posted on the project’s site, the former secretary of state and congressman warns that “our nation’s military power is at risk from assaults within.”
“I can think of no more damaging affront to our nation’s security than pitting our servicemen and women against each other based upon the melanin in their skin,” he wrote, adding that the only military standard should be “excellence.”
In a series of tweets from Wednesday, Pompeo reiterated the dangers posed by “wokeism” and the need to combat it.
“We’ve seen wokeism spread through many American institutions — academia, Hollywood, and even big business,” he wrote. “When wokeism takes over, the institution becomes nothing more than a tool to advance left-wing policies.”
“We can’t let that happen to our military,” he added.
-We’ve seen wokeism spread through many American institutions–academia, Hollywood, and even big business.
When wokeism takes over, the institution becomes nothing more than a tool to advance left-wing policies.
We can’t let that happen to our military.
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) September 28, 2022
Pompeo noted this “sickness has taken hold in the Air Force” as well.
“The Air Force Academy has a fellowship that excludes ‘cisgendered’ men,” he wrote. “They tell cadets not to say ‘mom & dad.’ And they even discourage using the word ‘terrorist.’”
