Editor,
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to be appointed as secretary of defense. Here are the backgrounds of the last seven secretaries of defense that served both Republican and Democratic presidents:
Editor,
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to be appointed as secretary of defense. Here are the backgrounds of the last seven secretaries of defense that served both Republican and Democratic presidents:
• Lloyd Austin: vice chief of staff of the Army, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, commander of CENTCOM.Â
• Mark Esper: deputy assistant SecDef, senior leader at Raytheon, secretary of the Army.Â
• Jim Mattis: supreme allied commander of NATO, commander of CENTCOM.Â
• Ash Carter: Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Kennedy School of Government, under SecDef for acquisition, technology and logistics.Â
• Chuck Hagel: founder of a technology company, chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, U.S. senator for 12 years.Â
• Leon Panetta: member of Congress for 16 years, White House chief of staff, director of CIA.Â
• Robert Gates: deputy national security advisor, director of CIA.Â
Here is the CV for Pete Hegseth: served in the Army National Guard attaining rank of major. Briefly led two small, failing nonprofits. Hosted a weekend show on Fox News.
We ask 19-year-olds to risk their lives to defend the United States, however, gutless politicians can’t even stand up to the oligarch.
Constance Quirk
Burlingame
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Thank, Ms. Quirk, for a rabid leftie serving of hysterical screeching and for reminding us what winning feels like. Delicious. May I have another? It is difficult to take you seriously when you think Lloyd Austin was a qualified SecDef. Remember, Austin was the so-called leader when Biden took a knee and gifted Afghanistan to the Taliban. Allow me to remind everyone of a few of Austin’s disgraceful and treasonous actions: gifting over $80 billion in weapons and cash to the Taliban, the deaths of 13 servicemen and servicewomen during the botched withdrawal, a woke culture in the military, firing military personnel because they wouldn’t take an ineffective COVID shot, along with many other disgraceful actions. Not only is Pete Hegseth qualified, I’d imagine just about everyone else, including yourself, might do a better job than Austin. BTW, where’s your favorite personality, Jim Acosta, gone to after his self-firing at CNN?
"Lloyd Austin: vice chief of staff of the Army, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, commander of CENTCOM." The same guy who was fired by Trump during his first term because he could not end the fight with ISIS. Austin's successor ended it in 4 months. Biden picked a real loser just to spite Trump.
Trump is like an out out-of-control child, playing aimlessly around, trying to see how much it can get away with. He has no integrity or understanding of what he is doing, - just look at the absolutely insane assignments he has made! I don’t think he really wants to ruin the nation, - he just doesn’t have the intellect to grasp the consequences of his actions, while being cheered along by the least educated in the nation.
Jorge are you as stupid as you appear? Based on your emotional responses which lack ZERO facts, you should be eradicated or at least censored or canceled. BTW, when you debate, it is required to use facts, not your wants, desires and or emotions that are meaningless. So please help us all understand what "playing aimlessly around" means, and what "he has no integrity or understanding" means? Throwing out talking points or bozo comments that say and mean nothing helps no-one other than our Jorgidian cult. So will you hide or ignore.
The Left is now getting a taste of what Republicans had to put up with under Bidden. As I recall his Army went in for optional surgery without alerting the chain of command.
How in the world could Trump pick someone like Hegseth for such an important position? Doesn’t he care, doesn’t he understand, or is he simply that careless and ignorant?
I guess Trump had to give up trying to find anyone less competent and unqualified for the job, than Hegseth, yet hoping he wouldn't be too drunk to say "Yezz Zhir!"
Hello Constance - those super qualified secretaries of the Defense Dept. also sent thousands of our military to their deaths in unwinnable wars. Are you saying that those are also prerequisites for the job, initiating mindless slaughter of our youth? During the Second World War we had 7 four star generals, and now there are 44, commanding exactly what? Even my 7 year old grandson could not do more harm than the last turkey, Austin.
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