'Could have been an email': Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech to top generals was supposed to serve as a rallying cry for military exceptionalism — but it didn’t land that way with many of the people it was targeting.

Numerous defense officials — who watched senior brass scramble to Washington and then sit through a partisan speech from President Donald Trump and a return to old-school military standards by Hegseth — were left wondering why the event had occurred at all.

“More like a press conference than briefing the generals,” said one defense official, who, like others, was granted anonymity due to fears of retribution. “Could have been an email.”

Defense officials, in the Pentagon and at bases around the world, spent much of Tuesday trying to make sense of the last-minute gathering at the Quantico base in Virginia. Hegseth called out “fat generals,” and, separately, pushed fitness standards that could limit women in combat roles, while Trump offered his justification for sending the military into American cities.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/could-email-officials-balk-hegseths-190322740.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. "military exceptionalism" - what the hell kind of journalism is that?

From defenders of freedom around the world to oppressors of freedom at home all in one speech.

This is a difficult dance, and it's not like people won't notice.

[tanyev]

2. Video of hitting Send on an email isn't very useful in propaganda videos.

Of course, neither is video of all the Defense officials sitting there stone-faced while two buffoons blathered on and on idiotically, but the two buffoons in question probably expected a very different reaction.

[surfered]

3. They could have watched it in CSPAN or Fox of had a Zoom meeting.

What a waste of time snd money

[IcyPeas]

4. Made for tv. Fox weekend host and has-been tv celebrity. 'nuff said.