A minor rant about congressional hearings and Pete Hegseth

I didn't watch them. The hearings. So all I know is what I read in the newspapers. And random video clips on the net.

And what concerned me was not what I heard or read, but what I didn't.

What I didn't read was anything about:

• Recruiting shortfalls
• Drones
• Shipbuilding 
• Manufacturing capacity
• Cyber Command
• The role of the Space Force

Or much of anything else except a lot of garble about culture war stuff and “lethality,” whatever that means. And auditing.

In other words, just a coven of politicians arguing among themselves about what makes them feel important, themselves.

For the record, I am much underwhelmed by Mr. Hegseth's qualifications to be SecDef.

But what you don't ask you don't know. And may or may not get.