Curt Mills: Trump Can Save America or Wage Another War, but He Can’t Do Both. Here’s Why.
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So it's amazing to me that over 20 years after the Iraq war, its architects and supporters are still not fully in control of America's foreign policy, but certainly influential in it. And it's shocking to me that two months after Trump's landslide victory, a race in which he ran against the neocons, the neocons are still brazen enough to try and influence and sabotage his nominations.
Welcome to the Tucker Carlson Show. We bring you stories that have not been showcased anywhere else. And they're not censored, of course, because we're not gatekeepers. We are honest brokers here to tell you what we think you need to know and do it honestly. Check out all of our content at TuckerCarlson.com. Here's the episode. We are days but less than a week before Tulsi Gabbard's hearings. Where are we in the below-the-radar war between permanent Washington's national security establishment, the neocons, and the incoming Trump administration?
I think it's unclear. So as of this recording 10 minutes ago, Mr. Hegseth, the defense secretary, was just confirmed on a 50-50 vote. Hegseth is an interesting character. I believe a former colleague of yours. Yes. He appears to have done a bit of a conversion on his foreign policy beliefs. And the best evidence of that is the people that he's picked so far. So his cadres, the people that will serve as—
I'm going to ask you to pause right there. So this is relevant to people who know Pete Hegseth from clips on acts of him from eight years ago saying things that would lead you to believe he's a pretty stout neocon.
Yeah.
But, okay, so that's what you're referring to.
Yeah, I mean, I think the available evidence is that he is like a, circa 10 years ago was a pretty conventional Republican. Yes. And he has changed his life in more ways than one.
Yes.
So he is a question mark. But the early evidence is the people that he has chosen to surround himself are stark departures from the man from 10 years ago. And so that's a big deal. It is a big deal. Especially in a place like the Pentagon, which is hard to control.
Yes, and wants no change under any circumstances except an annual increase in the number of four-star generals. It's the largest bureaucracy on earth. It is. And it exists to serve itself. It's got a pretty abysmal record of winning wars, a pretty great record of spending money. It desperately needs reform. And you're saying that based on the personnel choices you think he's making, he's now the defense secretary, by the way, as of right now. Yes. that he is sincerely on board with Trump's foreign policy.
Yeah, I mean, he did not need to make these picks. I don't think he needed to make these picks to get confirmed. I don't think he needed these picks to win any senators. He is courting, I think, minor controversy now, which is why we're having this meeting. He did not need to do this. It was a move of conviction and belief and principle in his early days in office. So give us an example. Just give us an example of what you're talking about. Sure. There's going to be this Michael D'Amino figure who will have the Middle East portfolio. He has been advised throughout the process by another figure named Daniel Caldwell. These are both, you know, people in their 40s or 30s, you know, basically millennials who are veterans of the global war on terror.
They're very much in the... So they fought in that? Yeah, Dan did. And Michael was a CIA agent. So, yeah, these are the guys that were hunting down IRGC, Iranian Revolutionary Guard core people in the forever wars that Trump and Vance ran on reforming and ending, etc., etc. And so, you know, they're very much in the Vance mold of we went there. Not really sure what the point was.
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