U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter addresses U.S. military personnel during a meeting near an F-16 fighter jet at Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea Thursday, April 9, 2015. Reuters/Lee Jin-man/Pool
Austin Wright and Connor O'Brien, Politico: The Democrats' secretary of war
President Obama's fourth defense secretary is looking a lot like he could be Hillary Clinton's first.
STUTTGART, Germany — After a Navy SEAL died in Iraq last week in an Islamic State attack, Defense Secretary Ash Carter was quick to hail him as a warrior who “died in combat.”
An ocean away, White House press secretary Josh Earnest offered a different take. While characterizing Carter’s remarks as “accurate,” Earnest said Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charles Keating IV “was not in a combat mission, but he was in a dangerous place.”
The twin reactions to the latest U.S. casualty in the Middle East demonstrated once again that President Barack Obama and his more hawkish defense secretary aren’t completely in sync on the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a war the White House is trying to downplay if not constrain.
Carter’s worldview puts him more in line with Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton than with Obama — and several analysts said Carter could be in the running to remain in his post should Clinton win in November, at least for a time. Others shot down the prospect as unlikely.
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WNU Editor: I can easily see him staying in a Hillary Clinton administration. But in a Donald Trump White House .... I doubt it. My gut is telling me that the first priority in a Donald Trump administration would be to clean house .... regardless on how qualified a person may be.
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Yes
While Trump might bring in his own senior staff, the neo-con and neo-lib penetration of The US Govenment goes all the way diwn to the very base.
The end result will be the same.
One hopes not, but I am not hopeful the new president would choose any better.
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