Making the Implicit Explicit
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave a brief presentation in the oval office recently where he spoke of renaming the Department of Defence. Henceforth, it is to be the Department of War. Mr. Hegseth enthusiastically endorsed the name change and, in truth, offensive as it may seem, his honesty is welcome. We may now officially drop any illusions we might have had that our military consists of citizen soldiers with a duty to defend the USA. They are now officially acknowledged as global 'war fighters.'Further, Hegseth defines the purpose of his department as "maximum lethality, minimum tepid legality." Presumably he wants us to join him and celebrate backsliding into barbarity.
--- Excerpt from the CCI newsletter (CCI - Center for Citizen Initiatives)Well we have been having over 500 years of barbarity in the US (and maybe 8000 years in the world in general) so it's not new, but it's still worrying that the pretense has been dropped
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