Meet Pete Hegseth: The 'recovering neocon' and Pentagon critic who's been tapped for Defense secretary
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President-elect Donald Trump sent shock waves through the national security establishment when he nominated Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary.
"I’ve been a recovering neocon for six years now," Hegseth, a former Fox News host, told the "Shawn Ryan Show" podcast.
He said he was a huge proponent of the Iraq War "at the time," but "in retrospect, absolutely not."
"The hubris of the Pentagon is they want to now tell other countries how to do counterinsurgency based on what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. The trust that our political leaders and our generals would have our best interests in mind is totally broken," he explained. "At the same time. I’m fearful of what happens when the institution gets abandoned."
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