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petesergeant 11 hours ago

Sorry, at the heart of this is that the Commander in Chief and Secretary of War are idiots. It's not clear how any of this situation would be any different if America had a dramatically higher production capacity.

fooker 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

These are orthogonal problems.

Getting into this war was stupid.

Being unable to win it is also pretty bad.

pjc50 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Clausewitz would say they are the same: the stupid war is the continuation of stupid politics by other means. The objectives are unclear, which prevents them being achieved.

petesergeant 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

These are the same problem. Getting into this war was stupid because it's virtually impossible to win it.

chneu 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Correction: Hegseth is a crusader. He is a super zealous religious fanatic who very much wants to destroy as many Muslims as possible. He has a crusades tattoo and openly talks about killing heathens in his WEEKLY SERMON. He might be an idiot alcoholic, but he very much knows what he is doing.

petesergeant 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> he very much knows what he is doing

Nothing about how this war is going suggests he has any idea what he’s doing as SecWar

caycep 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

I mean he's even not that great at his chosen profession which is a television news media personality, although I am sure he knows what he is apparently trying to do, in that regard.

mcphage 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Correction: Hegseth is a crusader. [...SNIP...] He might be an idiot alcoholic, but he very much knows what he is doing.

That sound like he knows what he wants to do, but that's not the same as knowing what he is doing.

ben_w 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed.

One of the contracting things I turned down was someone who knew what they wanted to do was make Uber for aircraft.

I turned it down because they clearly didn't know enough about this goal to fill an elevator pitch, let alone a slide deck, and I think many of the current US Secretary of XYZ leaders are similarly unaware of how vast a chasm lay between what they wanted to do and a specific, measurable, realistic, and time-constrained plan to actually achieve anything.

ryandrake 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

English language ambiguity problem. "Knows what he is doing" has two potential meanings: it could mean competence, or it could mean clear intent. I think OP meant the latter.