Krauthammer on Transgender Troops: Shouldn't Pentagon Be More Worried About War With ISIS?

Charles Krauthammer says the Pentagon's "priorities are completely out of whack" with the focus on transgendered soldiers while the U.S. is trying to fight ISIS. <blockquote>KRAUTHAMMER: I think what's so striking here is the juxtaposition of two stories. One the announcement by [Ash] Carter of the change in the policy on transgender people. The other is a story that was not really covered almost anywhere, the fact that what's left of the Free Syrian Army, this is the Pentagon-trained fighters who are Arab, not Kurds, who had been disseminated before, they launched, what's left of them, launched an attack an assault on ISIL in eastern Syria and got crushed. They were put to flight. ISIS has already shown video of prisoners being beheaded. Now, the job of the Pentagon is to fight wars and keep us safe. You are getting the impression that in the middle of war time and this is war time, the Pentagon is entirely devoted to social experimentation and social work. I have no problem with the policy in and of itself, but is this what the Pentagon should be working on at the time when the policy ought to be to direct the armed forces and the training to win a war that is killing people everywhere from Orlando to Ankara? I just think the priorities are completely out of whack. </blockquote>