I don't mind the secretary of defence being a warhawk. His job isn't to start a war but to get the military ready for war, and maintain that war readiness, and give advice IF we can go to war in situations when the President asks him for that option. He will have a plethora of generals under him preparing wldifferent types of war plans, and will also make plans that actively work against The Department of State's best plans, as well as conpliment them.
You sorta want a gung ho "I will F'in murder you" kind of guy in that position. You can have your doves too, but in lesser roles in the DOD. More room for them in The State Department, but you still want a mix there. Main concern is the mindset of the president who has say. It's only if the President is incapacitated that the Secretary of Defence has no one in charge of him, and that's only until the VP (or next in the line of succession) takes the oath of office.... which is supposed to happen very quickly, but somehow Biden has been incapacitated for years and is still President. We clearly have a constituional weakspot there that can use a new amendment to tweak it.
As the US leads several international alliances such as NATO, we gotta keep our military scary looking in order to keep the peace. Deterence is a very healthy prop for peace when surrounded by psychopaths. Keeps them honest. Notice Russia didn't invade Kiev until after Biden screwed up in Afghanistan.... making it too obvious you are not interested in smaking anyone down makes you look incrediably weak to such men as Putin and Xi.
@Dignaga Get real. The US doesn't keep the peace. It makes war! It loves war! All its economy is based on war! There is a saying in diplomatic circles. When two nations go to war you can be sure that an official from the US government visited one of the nations recently.
@hippyjoe1955 I'd rather the backwards people fear us than love us. When they love us they do what they want, when they fear us they pay attention and listen to our suggestions carefully.
@Dignaga My but you are a cultural elitist aren't you. What makes you think your culture is so much more superior that anyone else? You really think that a culture is advanced because it celebrates sexual perversion and deviancy? You really think your culture is advanced when hundreds of thousands are living on the street and in tents? You really think your culture is superior when schools are being shot up by mentally ill people who were manipulated into going on mass killing sprees? Now that is funny!!!!
@hippyjoe1955 No, it isn't. You are neither making a deduction or a inference. You are instead projecting something from yourself, such as a presumption, onto me.
You literally just stumbled into this thread and started making projections non-existent here about your own beliefs and worldview, and insisted it is present here. It isn't- neither inference or deduction was used by you, and it is obvious to nobody save yourself whatever your insistence otherwise.
@Dignaga Says more about your own blindness than anything else. You are a cultural elitist who mistakenly thinks that your culture is superior to everyone else in the world.
