The office of Secretary of Defense has always been held with honor and dignity. Until now.

[Jirel]

3. Oh please.

We’ve had a number of responsible Secretaries of Defense, to be sure. But there have been plenty of lack-wits and criminals in the mix. Rumsfeld was a murderous criminal who was in love with fighting wars and pinching pennies, miring us in failed Middle East wars on lie after lie. McNamara was a Ford “whiz-kid” zealot (sound like any technocraps in today’s gang of criminals?) in love with death, measuring “success” in corpses but never having had a strategy to “win” the war. There are other (dis)honorable mentions.

Hegseth is certainly an outstanding candidate in this field of incompetents, but he’s hardly alone in having zero competence or credibility.