“President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history,” said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
That, of course, is nonsense. Think of the air and naval armada put in place for the invasion of Normandy, for example.
Surely Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine knew it was bullshit when he heard it. Oh, he heard it — they made him stand beside Hegseth as the Honorable Secretary of Defense said it. The evidence lives on in the transcript on the Department of Defense website.
It’s probably galling for military people to see the administration using them — their skills, the risks they take, their sacrifices — in the service of domestic political propaganda.
No honor in that.