I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.
Some of you may think the job of the SECDEF is to advise POTUS, confer with senior leaders on strategy, acquisitions, R/D, and other boring stuff. It's not.
It's to do PT with kids and bark Old Testament passages at them while losing a war to a third-rank power in the Gulf.
If Obama or Biden had built a monument to themselves after destroying the East Wing, the Republicans would have passed a bill allowing its destruction with tactical nuclear weapons.
The next president should just take it apart quietly and quickly.