Whatever you think of Hegseth he is now the defense secretary and the real test begins. Will the woke warrior who wants to make the military more lethal than ever be absorbed by the Borg (and Trump's Silicon Valley pals) or be an irritant on behalf of his boss, who remembers the last time his brass screwed him over and is angling for a fight? Our friend Winslow Wheeler offered some ideas on where this will go, with the worst: "he could end up like (Donald) Rumsfeld and help to foist historic disasters driven by the agenda of others. He may think, like Rumsfeld, that the way to escape ignominy as an ineffectual manager is to be a driver of such a foisted disaster."
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Kelley