It appears that Donald Trump is livid at Pete Hegseth.
Not long ago the president still cooed that his macho secretary of defense ¡°loves war,¡± including the one Trump launched in Iran. Now that war is turning out to be unwinnable and seemingly unendable. So Trump, venting his frustration at Camp David, wanted to know why Hegseth misled him by not explaining earlier that America was ¡ª who could have guessed? ¡ª running out of ammunition.
We should all be mad at Hegseth for overselling ¡°lethality¡± in general and the war against Iran in particular. But we should be even angrier at Trump, who as commander-in-chief gave the order to start this misguided conflict. Both men could have listened to any number of advisers who would have ¡°red-teamed¡± scenarios of things going wrong, from Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz to the U.S. depleting its munitions.
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