Those unfortunate military leaders being insulted by a man who greases his head:
The image is cropped from a Strib editorial claiming he's no business being at the Pentagon, the image being credited (Rod Lamkey/The Associated Press).
It's ugly, and unique to the man that whatever it is, he uses way too much.
What is interesting in local Strib coverage is that they did not use carried text, they wrote their own demeaning and one might say insulting editorials of the gathered generals being verbally abused by civilian leaders.
A second Strib locally written criticism screed used this image to make a point.
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Strib used different authors for each editorial, and Crabgrass chooses to focus on the one critical of Trump.
Burcum: Americans are not the enemy, Mr. President
Trump’s call to make U.S. cities military “training grounds” is ominous.
The Minnesota Star TribuneSeptember 30, 2025 at 5:16PM
From that, you can read the item, which is well written. For a flavor, Trump was the dog, Hegseth the pony, as Crabgrass sees things, and neither Strib item will be excerpted. Each is worth reader access separate from this post.
Instead, focus is on the first page of reader commentary to that last linked item =
- If you hold yourself to standards of intellect, integrity, honor, and decency and you encounter a family member or other individual who deems Donald Trump as fit and proper to be leader and representative of the United States, you then not only find yourself rapidly losing respect for that individual but also inevitably questioning and doubting their judgement on everything.
- Hegseth needs to move to an "office" setting much more suitable for his "skills." Bringing the top military leadership in to listen to that unhinged, incoherent ranting and raving (by both him and his sponsor) is just one more glaring example of his incompetence and unfitness.I suggest a stool at the end of the bar at the Forest Lake Legion hall.
- Pete is the guy mothers warned their daughters about.
That's the post. To this point. My abiding question, what was the duty assignment Hegseth had at Guantanamo, and how did he handle it? Detainees there reportedly were beaten -
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/01/the-sin-of-torture-guant%C3%A1namo-bay/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/03/22-years-of-justice-denied/
MORE: An excerpt from: https://justiceinconflict.org/2020/03/05/the-stuff-of-nightmares-how-the-specter-of-enhanced-interrogations-affects-the-9-11-military-commissions-in-guantanamo/
The Stuff of Nightmares: How the Specter of “Enhanced Interrogations” Affects the 9/11 Military Commissions in Guantánamo
The following guest-post was written by Kate Gibson, who has been representing accused before the international criminal courts and tribunals since 2005, including as co-counsel for Radovan Karadžic and Charles Taylor, and as lead counsel for Justin Mugenzi before the ICTR. She is currently the co-counsel of Bosco Ntaganda before the ICC, where she also represented Jean-Pierre Bemba between 2009 and 2018. She was an observer to the 9/11 proceedings before the Military Commission in February 2020 as part of the ADC-ICT’s Guantánamo Bay Observer Program.
A detainee at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay is escorted to an interrogation by military guards (Photo: Associated Press)
Almost 20 years after the event, five men are facing charges for their alleged role in the hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. The U.S. Government has charged the group of five accused – including the alleged 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – with terrorism and murder as a war crime, among other counts. This is a capital case, with the Government seeking the death penalty, and one that exposes the all-too thin line between the legitimate pursuit of accountability and the (ab)use of defendants’ rights to reach the desired result.
The charges would have been readily prosecutable in U.S. Federal Court. In fact, some of the accused were first indictedin the Southern District of New York. Ultimately, the proceedings were carved out of the domestic legal system and are now being conducted offshore before a U.S. Military Commission in Guantánamo, Cuba.
From its peak of 780 detainees in 2005, 40 people remain incarcerated at Guantánamo, a Naval Base just over 100 square kilometres in size, located in a steamy outpost at the southeastern tip of Cuba. At a current annual cost of USD 13 million per inmate, some of the 40 who remain are “forever detainees”, who will never be charged, but will be released at the conclusion of the “War on Terror”.
Petey was there.
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Readers not following any earlier links are urged to read this, -
Donald Trump has appointed six people to lead the Department of Defense across his two non-consecutive presidencies. The progression from his first term to his second reveals a dramatic shift in priorities – from prioritizing military experience and institutional credibility to selecting ideological warriors willing to fundamentally restructure the Pentagon.
The contrast between James Mattis and Pete Hegseth tells you everything about how Trump’s approach to military leadership has changed.
Read it and reflect upon the difference between sanity and insanity.
In light of the recent spectacle - and otherwise.
Subjective views of things will differ, so, you are the judge.