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Pete Hegseth Secretary of Defense

Can't make it any clearer... Fort Lee is no longer named after Robert E...

I have no problem with your thoughts on the subject... I was Way ahead of you... :
I asked my father why so many bases were named after Confederates as a child (around 7 as I recall)... His reply was that most of those Base namings were probably done to please southern Congressmen and Senators who controlled the military budget... I think I rolled my eyes and moved onto other interests... The Military Budget and powerful Congressmen just weren't my "thing" at age 7...

*All I'm telling you is the renaming is now for Fitz Lee... I linked the details...*

Per usual, the media has gloomed onto to one unverified story and runs with it...

I can't get too worked up about it either way myself these days... Fort Polk, for instance, is where my Grandfather trained before shipping out to France (World War 1)... I prefer to reference its history as a US Army Base vs the joker it was named after... Same thing with Bragg and Benning...

I don't disagree with your premise I just can't get that excited about it at this point...

We won (the Civil War), they lost.. Used to be everybody knew that....

Sadly, I'm guessing if you asked 100 college freshmen who Robert E. Lee was only about 30 percent of them would answer correctly these days...
Don't blame the media. Blame the President. Here's a direct quote of him from the article you linked:

“For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee,” Trump said while speaking at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
 
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Don't blame the media. Blame the President. Here's a direct quote of him from the article you linked:

“For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee,” Trump said while speaking at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

He definitely got it wrong...

Given his priorities list for the day I'll give him the unforced error...

That's always a problem when he goes on his riffs...He needs a spokesperson with a reference binder standing right next to him to politely correct him in instances like this...

Still, he's a nice change of pace from a brain dead loser who had to already have the answer to whatever phony question was presented...

So... You are correct both technically and morally for the Win... I concede this exchange to you... 🍺
Now..., get back on those drones (I'm not buying that they're aliens)... 😉😎
 
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I'm glad the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wants Ukraine to prevail and isn't afraid to say it. Hegseth won't say it:



 
Hegseth had no problem lying to the American public when he claimed that strike mission information he put in Signal was unclassified. He’s not exactly a wise man, but he wasn’t stupid enough to lie under oath about that. He wouldn’t answer the questions about it. A man with some integrity would have admitted that it was highly classified and he royally ****ed up.


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Hegseth had no problem lying to the American public when he claimed that strike mission information he put in Signal was unclassified. He’s not exactly a wise man, but he wasn’t stupid enough to lie under oath about that. He wouldn’t answer the questions about it. A man with some integrity would have admitted that it was highly classified and he royally ****ed up.


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I would hate to see us have to launch military action against Greenland. The Danes punched above their weight class in terms of supporting us during the terror wars.

The coalition in Afghanistan wore a patch that said ISAF. Ostensibly it meant “International Security Assistance Force” but as Hegseth put it, in reality it came to stand for “I see Americans Fighting”.

The Danes contributions still don’t mean much. And the Danes can’t patrol and defend the Arctic, obviously.

We will have to protect it, by force if need be.
 
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