Dan Lamothe
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The kitchen tools you should seriously think about throwing out
We've got an incoming president who has openly and repeatedly threatened to fire anyone associated with the fall of Afghanistan. We've got a nominee for the defense secretary job in Pete Hegseth, who has said that one of the first things he would do would be to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
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The kitchen tools you should seriously think about throwing out
So I think at minimum, there's a great deal of apprehension and concern and alarm that I'm hearing from my sources right now in the Pentagon and just kind of around the Defense Department as an institution in general.
Apple News Today
The kitchen tools you should seriously think about throwing out
And depending on where you fall on that issue, you know, you could be doing an awful lot of housecleaning or more something that's very, you know, targeted.
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The kitchen tools you should seriously think about throwing out
I think one thing that here that I'm watching for and I'm concerned about just as an American citizen is how do we define who's, quote unquote, to blame for the fall of Afghanistan?
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The kitchen tools you should seriously think about throwing out
knowing a lot of these senior officers, knowing that they spent years there themselves, and in a lot of cases, managed the operations, tried to take care of their people the best they could, but also had orders to follow. And in many cases, particularly when it came to the end in Afghanistan,
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The kitchen tools you should seriously think about throwing out
often gritted their teeth and followed the rules and followed the laws, it's got to hit some kind of way for these senior officers, for their families, for Pentagon employees in general who are watching this all play out and kind of feel like they're being scapegoated after the fact.