By Walt Zlotow
To get confirmed as Trump’s Secretary of Defense (War to Trump), Pete Hegseth had to swear off drinking, with which he clearly had a major problem. Senate Republicans believed his promise to abstain (no Democrat would vote to confirm such a reprehensible pick) and installed him as the 29th Defense Secretary since its inception in 1947.
Alas, Hegseth’s career as an infantry officer in Afghanistan and Iraq, then as a talking head on military affairs for Fox News, ill prepared Pete to run our trillion dollar Defense Department which ostensibly is designed to promote peace, not war.
He’s absolutely ghoulish in his love of war. He re-Christened service members as “war fighters” and warned potential enemies about “FAFO” (fuck around and find out). He relished Trump’s directive to start obliterating small unarmed boats in the Caribbean off Venezuela. All this as he poured ships, planes and thousands of war fighters to prepare for the criminal invasion of Venezuela to topple hated socialist President Nicholas Maduro and steal Venezuela’s oil and other valuable resources.
Hegseth’s alleged mass murder of 80 hapless souls on 20 little boats was largely ignored by our war loving Congress. But Hegseth committed an atrocity too heinous to ignore when he ordered his war fighters to murder two survivors clinging to the wreckage of one of Hegseth’s bombed boats. Congress’ conscience has awakened with cries of “murderer” and “war criminal” being hurled at a sitting US cabinet member for the first time in US history.
It’s too early to determine if Hegseth and his mentor Donald Trump will face retribution for their grisly conduct. But if Hegseth really did kick drinking so he could rampage in the waters off Venezuela, he clearly made the wrong choice. He should have stuck with Jack Daniels instead of playing Pirate of the Caribbean.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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I see FIFA gave Trump a medal but he had to put it around his neck himself which is a bit odd !
I am reliably informed that the reason for this was that the chocolate medal was melting and FIFA President, Infantino didn’t want to get his fingers messy.
FIFA are known to be fast and loose on ethics.
The Big End controls it.
He took it himself…like Napoleon crowning himself emperor.