Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter was finally formally nominated to replace Chuck Hagel as the head of the Defense Department today, after days of speculation.
Carter was the fallback nominee after several people reported as top choices of President Obama all publicly rejected the post. Though Senate Republicans are backing Carter as a choice, his status as the only person who would take the job is likely to undermine his authority.
Carter had been seen as a potential candidate when Hagel was selected, and left office shortly thereafter. He is seen as a fairly straightforward hawk, and in 2006 he pushed for the Bush Administration to attack North Korea over its nuclear program.
At the time, Carter even conceded that the attacks risked starting a major war on the peninsula that would lead to tens of thousands of deaths, but insisted it would “be worth it” to destroy North Korea’s nuclear plant.
Carter was also typical of the anti-Iran hawks in arguing that deterrence doesn’t work against Iran because of its “extremist ideology,” and claiming that even a civilian Iranian nuclear program would threaten the entire region, and repeatedly insisted that military action was a vital part of a “comprehensive strategy” against Iran.
This puts the neocons back in total control, as they were under Bush. It is victory of the permanent national security state.
when have they not been in comtrol?
Obomber has invaded and destroyed more countries than Bush.
The asylum is surely completely run by the inmates.
Ashton Carter is not just a "straightforward hawk." He is an Israel First neocon, with ties to PNAC, and a record of supporting military action as a policy of first, last, and only resort. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/05/ash911/
Brain power dictatorship — Devil blessed encounter with a living hell
Don ‘t knock it, as and forever it truly is what makes our white educated upper half of society the richest Empire the world has ever known.
For we egotistical white bastards plunder the lower half of society worldwide, in the homeland by a starvation minimum wage — from the Middle-East to Asia by wars of aggression and deceit — so cunning and evil that we sucker those less intelligent into civil wars that enable us to enslave them unending.
For an intelligence dictatorship is what we Europeans have turned this world into, so enjoy your days of glory under the sun, which shall last until our wars of plunder have reached their ultimate conclusion and the environment of earth has expired in a convulsion.
AND he is reported to class Israel as a very special ally so he must be suitable for "Defense Secretary".
Americans voted for more war. It is what they are going to get. A Republican senate will not even entertain diplomacy with Iran. Has Obama read the tea leaves and repositioned himself accordingly? War with Iran before the end of the decade perhaps?
John McCain is a straightforward hawk. Ash Carter is a chickenhawk.
Pentagon — War control from the top-down
All the generals in the Pentagon, surely they control the Secretary of Defense, this is what Chuck Hagel opposed and this is why he no longer is Secretary of Defense.
For there is not much difference between our generals who rule the Pentagon and the dictator generals in Egypt who own 40% of the nation’s wealth. For High Society in both countries make sure that the generals have a bit more power then the elected politicians, for they want absolute and immediate control of government the moment it deviates in the slightest from their master design.