Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, was not only dangerous as a major military officer in Virginia on Tuesday.
Former Fox News co -organizers have been forced to leave hundreds of top military officials from the world to leave a short notice for a short notice for a speech that feels like a cross between political rally and the Old Price Club Loss.
He brave the battlefield and criticized the crowd of decorated veterans who had made life or death decisions and criticized other troops. “Friends in dress,” Dismissal “Climate change worship,” Looks like approval Risk of new employees And perhaps War crime.
The speech was a violation of the divine line between civilian control and military expertise.
The speech was a shame that violated the sacred lines between civilian control and military expertise that undermined only his own authority. But it was also an ominous signal of how the president and his so -called war ministers saw the army a little bit more than a pawn shop in political dramas.
The speech was so ridiculous that Senator Tammy Duckworth -Former Black Hawk helicopter pilot, he lost his legs in her country. “Please resign immediately.” The lawyer speaks anonymously politics The speech criticized the waste of time and money and a tremendous interference from important jobs to defend the state.
But HEGSETH’s speech and Donald Trump’s speech were not just distracted. They were also an overview of the alternative mission of the army.
The army suffers great pain to attract women and colorful people to attract the best and brightest. What Trump and Hegste forgot is a historical and important role in our army in creating “diversity, equity and inclusiveness” not only in class and files, but also in the United States. HegSeth explained the plan Male -oriented fitness standard It will let women get out of the main posts Face hair requirements It will harm people who need medical conditions or religious exemptions.
The army follows the rules of participation in order to burn conflict and to be easier to hire the other side. HegSeth said, “I don’t want to fight with foolish engagement rules.”
The army is forbidden to execute domestic law. Trump said he wanted to send it to Portland, Oregon.
Trump and HegSeth are large speakers and can say what they want. Unlike the CEO or the university president, military officers gathered in Quantico could not walk and could not support. Instead, the decorated general and the Admiral’s strings were sitting on the brass rods mostly stones under the lights, except for light applause.
This important issue depends on how the army reacts if the president and minister decide to do what they explained. In Trump’s first term, the army asked Mark Esper, Defense Secretary, whether the army could shoot protesters.
But now the pile is higher. Esper wrote that he had successfully promoted Trump’s request in his memoirs. HegSeth showed that he was unlikely to do the same. The moment he passes a similar request to one of the generals sitting on the audience of Quantico in the commander through a similar request. At that moment, the leadership of our army should decide whether to do it. Duty to disobey the illegal order obviously illegal order According to the unification norm of military justice.
The future of American democracy can depend on their decisions.
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