Ben Rhodes

Mattis is like, I don't like that. I don't know if Dan Cain likes to go by Raisin Cain. Trump's got this weird thing. He wants a general with a nickname and kind of central casting. So we'll see. But what worries me the most about this is Pete Hegseth, actually. Me too. This is the guy that's really in charge.

Mattis is like, I don't like that. I don't know if Dan Cain likes to go by Raisin Cain. Trump's got this weird thing. He wants a general with a nickname and kind of central casting. So we'll see. But what worries me the most about this is Pete Hegseth, actually. Me too. This is the guy that's really in charge.

And, you know, I just I hope that the military can be insulated by some degree from political interference. We'll have to see.

And, you know, I just I hope that the military can be insulated by some degree from political interference. We'll have to see.

And, you know, I just I hope that the military can be insulated by some degree from political interference. We'll have to see.

It's an odd resume. What I found interesting about it, though, is for the last several years, he worked for our man, Bill Burns. Not exactly. It's confusing. It's the kind of resume that... I had a couple people that worked for me, Tommy, in our little unit of the NSC. I remember there was one guy, it was after you left, he came to work on kind of that... some of that global information space.

It's an odd resume. What I found interesting about it, though, is for the last several years, he worked for our man, Bill Burns. Not exactly. It's confusing. It's the kind of resume that... I had a couple people that worked for me, Tommy, in our little unit of the NSC. I remember there was one guy, it was after you left, he came to work on kind of that... some of that global information space.

It's an odd resume. What I found interesting about it, though, is for the last several years, he worked for our man, Bill Burns. Not exactly. It's confusing. It's the kind of resume that... I had a couple people that worked for me, Tommy, in our little unit of the NSC. I remember there was one guy, it was after you left, he came to work on kind of that... some of that global information space.

And he had like a 15 year gap in his resume. It was like, he signed up to serve and at the end, and then like the next year before, like point being is that he was up to some special forces type stuff, I'm sure. And, and there's a little bit of that in the Dan Cain resume, you know, which you could, I, Which you could argue is interesting, but we don't know what it was.

And he had like a 15 year gap in his resume. It was like, he signed up to serve and at the end, and then like the next year before, like point being is that he was up to some special forces type stuff, I'm sure. And, and there's a little bit of that in the Dan Cain resume, you know, which you could, I, Which you could argue is interesting, but we don't know what it was.

And he had like a 15 year gap in his resume. It was like, he signed up to serve and at the end, and then like the next year before, like point being is that he was up to some special forces type stuff, I'm sure. And, and there's a little bit of that in the Dan Cain resume, you know, which you could, I, Which you could argue is interesting, but we don't know what it was.

Well, I think here's the other thing. The reason they have those requirements about being a four-star is that they want you to have been like a service chief. Like usually the Joint Chiefs had run the Air Force, the Navy, the Army, because it's not just military advisor on like policy. It's also like managing the workforce, managing all these personnel, knowing how procurement is working, right?

Well, I think here's the other thing. The reason they have those requirements about being a four-star is that they want you to have been like a service chief. Like usually the Joint Chiefs had run the Air Force, the Navy, the Army, because it's not just military advisor on like policy. It's also like managing the workforce, managing all these personnel, knowing how procurement is working, right?

Well, I think here's the other thing. The reason they have those requirements about being a four-star is that they want you to have been like a service chief. Like usually the Joint Chiefs had run the Air Force, the Navy, the Army, because it's not just military advisor on like policy. It's also like managing the workforce, managing all these personnel, knowing how procurement is working, right?

And so that's what's missing from Dan Cain's resume is being in this position of kind of overseeing an entire force. And, you know, so who's... But that may be because Pete Hegseth thinks that his like woke books or anti-woke books qualify him. There's actually nobody that means that has experience, you know, like managing this huge enterprise of millions of people.

And so that's what's missing from Dan Cain's resume is being in this position of kind of overseeing an entire force. And, you know, so who's... But that may be because Pete Hegseth thinks that his like woke books or anti-woke books qualify him. There's actually nobody that means that has experience, you know, like managing this huge enterprise of millions of people.

And so that's what's missing from Dan Cain's resume is being in this position of kind of overseeing an entire force. And, you know, so who's... But that may be because Pete Hegseth thinks that his like woke books or anti-woke books qualify him. There's actually nobody that means that has experience, you know, like managing this huge enterprise of millions of people.

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