Sunday, December 8, 2024
Pete Hegseth’s Crusade to Turn the Military into a Christian Weapon - POLITICO
There are legitimate grievances that Hegseth has embraced, among them the VA's overburdened and underfunded health care system, the revolving door between the Pentagon and defense contractors and the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan that permanently damaged Biden's approval rating, and for which the president has not expressed contrition. But Hegseth's belligerent anti-government views, wrapped in religious crusade rhetoric, also threaten to worsen a problem of extremism in the military; according to a 2023 study by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, people with military backgrounds are now "2.41 times more likely to be classified as mass casualty offenders than individuals who did not serve in the armed forces."…
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