Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Thursday that he was removing his senior military assistant, Lt. Gen. Ronald F. Lewis, over allegations of misconduct. A statement announcing the dismissal offered no details, saying only that the matter would be investigated by the Pentagon's inspector general, but a senior Defense Department official, speaking in the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter, said the misconduct was sexual.
His senior military advisor. Wow.
Which just goes to prove what I've been saying over and over and over: Men are such cockroaches.
And another thing. I can only think of Petraeus in the military off the top of my head, although it has been endemic in the quasi-military Secret Service, but don't you also have the sense, maybe an opaque memory, that these haven't been the only two in the last few years? Doesn't it seem that there has been more of this recently than remotely? The other thing is, "Does America still work?" I've been asking that for a couple of years. I think it was NSA, that whole cluster of issues, that first led me to ask that question of myself and to ask publicly. I don't recognize my country anymore. It seems unmoored. Lost its values. I don't trust America now. I'm not going to vote in 2016. Didn't renew my voter's registration. So when any misconduct or dysfunction becomes public, even stuff like this, clearly unrelated to NSA, it deepens the unsettlement I feel. This thing gets connected to the NSA cluster in my feelings. It feels to me that the above, and others, are somehow, I don't know how, part of a larger constellation, a nebulous...I can't make it out, a constellation that I cannot see, that I only feel, that America is out of control.
