@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") wrote:
“generals and politicians who emerge from the carnage of the forever wars without coarse passions, who speak in modulated tones about staying the course and shoveling more money to the Pentagon — they are cracked ones who should not operate the machinery of war.”
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@maassp ("Peter Maass") wrote:
In 2001, I became friendly with a Special Forces officer in Kandahar, Afghanistan. His name was Chris Miller, and two decades later he became Trump's final defense secretary. Here's Miller's controversial story of presiding over the Pentagon on Jan. 6. https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/trump-defense-secretary-christopher-miller