Will Carless: My reporting found this commission that was tasked with looking at the reforms that were already underway and suggesting what we should do is set up this kind of supercharged internal affairs unit within the US military where people can report instances of extremism so that 36% people in the military who are seeing extremism would have an independent place that they could go without fear of repercussions to report extremism. The military could then act upon those, investigate them and take action if necessary. And that just never happened. That was just a reform that was very well thought out, they talked to all the people involved all the stakeholders, and they said we should do this. And then they didn't do it. And my story is full of examples like that.
Sam Goldman:
Lloyd Austin and others are between a rock and a hard place of trying to keep this military going, to keep this empire going in a way that is based on forcible exploitation while trying to expunge maybe the worst oppressors from their enterprise. There is contention there, including what could open up if they were to at minimum expose the worst of the worst, what that would open them to the ranks of the military, to those in political power, whether it be Congress or otherwise. In this country, where he [Austin] talks about how the military is so revered in a way that's uniquely American, that is a thorny place that might open up in terms of how they're looked at in the world in the international perspective.
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