Pete Hegseth

I...

I've been a recovering neocon for six years now.

Like the foolishness with which we ricocheted around the world, intervening, think it was in our best interest when really we just overturned the table and created something worse in almost every single scenario has led to almost, I mean, the hubris of the Pentagon is that they want to now tell other countries how to do counterinsurgency based on what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Are you kidding me?

So you really have learned nothing.

Okay, nothing.

So you're right.

The trust there that our political leaders or our generals would have our best interests in mind is totally broken.

It's totally broken.

I acknowledge that completely.

And the last thing I want is my son deploying to the Donbass to defend Eastern Ukraine.

I'm with you too.

At the same time,

I'm fearful of what happens when the institution gets abandoned completely.

And maybe it feels like the public school argument, like, hey, if we take all the Christians and people of faith out of public schools, then they're really gonna go, yeah, but you gotta save your kid, right?

And I'm gonna save my kid.

And that's the view.

It's just, there isn't an alternative right now to the United States military.

There just isn't.

And I don't want to lose patriotic influence over that.