{"id":13479,"date":"2025-10-07T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13479"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:25:13","slug":"the-hegseth-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/the-hegseth-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hegseth Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Was Secretary of War Hegseth&#8217;s address to the generals a bit OTT? Perhaps. But that is in the nature of a correction. The military had gone off the rails into wokery and they needed to be brought back on track. Hegseth did the job admirably. But a certain do-nothing, yap-and-scribble Beltway gal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/the-embarrassing-pete-hegseth-e8e1e910?st=sYKHXZ\">found fault<\/a>. Well, look in the mirror: what did you do to stop the slide of the USA into the abyss? Trump&#8217;s traction is largely a function of pseudo-con inaction. So blame yourself for any excesses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Secretary of War Hegseth&#8217;s address to the generals a bit OTT? Perhaps. But that is in the nature of a correction. The military had gone off the rails into wokery and they needed to be brought back on track. Hegseth did the job admirably. But a certain do-nothing, yap-and-scribble Beltway gal found fault. Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/the-hegseth-correction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hegseth Correction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maga-matters","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13480,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions\/13480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}