U.S. Defense Secretary should be fired
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Editor,
What if your son or daughter was a pilot for the Air Force or Navy and you knew they sometimes flew dangerous missions for our country? Would you be comfortable having them serve under a defense secretary who is so cavalier that his team discusses war plans on a commercial chat group?
Think about that for a minute: Pete Hegseth, behaving more like a 10-year-old child, getting together with others to giggle and rub his hands in excitement about the expectation of sending these American fighter pilots out on a mission of substantial danger to themselves, yet he, Pete Hegseth, hasn’t enough sense to keep the mission details completely secret. No. I mean, he might claim that the mission was not “classified information,” but what difference does that really make? (Though it sure as hell should have been classified.) But whether it was, or it wasn’t, here was Pete Hegseth, the big man in charge of all the armed forces of the United States of America, acting like a 10-year-old in some kind of a tree-fort giggle, talking it up on a commercial chat group. Does that, in any conceivable way, sound appropriate to you? Can you, in your wildest imagination, come up with a scenario in which harm might have been done to those armed forces pilots, had one tiny thing gone wrong? It’s just by the greatest of good lucks it didn’t happen. But the fact is, he, Pete Hegseth, took totally inappropriate chances with the sons and daughters of America, and he should be held accountable and fired.
Eugene Beckes
St. Ignatius
